[OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive Environment Variable

[Jim Klassen]

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but it seems odd to me to make OSGeoLive a special case at runtime.  Wouldn't it make more sense to have the OSGeoLive install_*.sh file configure the application for the paths on OSGeoLive (which may include setting an environment variable to point to a default data directory for an application)?

On 9/8/20 3:18 PM, Seth G wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> It would be useful for a Python Notebook (or any demo application) to know if it is running on OSGeoLive in order to set paths to data etc.
>
> Looking at the current system environment variables I don't think there is something that would definitively declare a script is running on OSGeoLive.
>
> Setting an OSGEOLIVE variable to the version could be even more helpful e.g. "export OSGEOLIVE=14" (somewhere in https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/tree/master/bin - although I'm not sure where). As noted in IRC from kalxas "we can add this to the bash profile of new users" - so maybe in https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/setup.sh ?
>
> "export OSGEOLIVE=true" or similar could be used if keeping version numbers updated is a problem.
>
> Then any demos could be multipurposed - running in cloud plus running on osgeolive and setting appropriate paths to data if that is the case.
>
> Seth
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