[Tilesathome] Possible inconsistency in handling of double quotes in tilesAtHome.conf on windows.

[Milenko]

My fix for all this was to change the entries in tilesathome.conf to their 
8.3 counterparts.  So c:\program files\inkscape\ becomes 
c:\progra~1\inkscape\.

If there aren't any spaces in the directory structure, then you don't need 
any quotes so you could install the necessary programs into directories that 
don't contain spaces as well.

-Jeremy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Reid" <rob at robreid.co.nz>
To: <tilesathome at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: [Tilesathome] Possible inconsistency in handling of double quotes 
in tilesAtHome.conf on windows.


> When recently installing tiles at home on Win XP, I encountered the
> following problem with the handling of double quotes on the Inkscape
> configuration setting in tilesATHome.conf.
>
> My Inkscape install is located in C:\Program Files\Inkscape\.
>
> From what I can work out with my non existent perl skills is that the
> 'Inkscape=' conf setting is referenced twice.
>
> - Firstly in tahconfig.pm where its making sure Inkscape is available
> and outputing the version info:
>
>    tahconfig.pm(154): my $InkscapeV = `$Config->{Inkscape} --version`;
>
> In this case if your Inkscape path contains spaces you need to use
> double quotes in the conf setting (e.g Inkscape="C:\Program
> Files\Inkscape\inkscape.exe"). If you don't you get the error message
>
>    'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external
>    command,operable program or batch file.
>    Can't find inkscape (using "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\inkscape.exe")
>
> - Secondly in tilesGen.pl where it constructs the command line to call
> Inkscape to do it's thing:
>
>    tilesGen.pl(1201): $Config{Inkscape},
>
> In this case you can't use double quotes in the conf setting (e.g
> Inkscape=C:\Program Files\Inkscape\inkscape.exe) or you get the
> following error
>
>      The following command produced an error message:
>       ""C:\Program Files\Inkscape\inkscape.exe"" -z -w 256 -h 256
>    --export-area=0.000000:0.000000:878.9
>    10000:874.412471
>    --export-png="C:\tiles_at_home\temp\2772\2772_part-rHMP44.png"
>    "C:\tiles_at_home\te
>    mp\output-2772-z12.svg" > C:\tiles_at_home\temp\2772-cSW3RD.stdout
>      Debug output follows:
>      | '""C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external 
> command,
>      | operable program or batch file.
>
> My quick dirty work around to get myself rendering was to create a 2nd
> Inkscape entry in the conf file (eg Inkscape1), have one with double
> quotes and one without and reference them where required.
>
> I'm afraid my perl skills are not up to fixing this.
>
> In terms of the other conf settings that contain paths under windows,
> what's working for me is no double quotes on the working dir and double
> quotes on everything else but not all my paths have spaces in them so
> have not tested all possibilities. I can do if someone wants me to.
>
> Sorry if I'm posting to the wrong place, was not sure if I should be
> going to trac somewhere or the Usability Reports page in the wiki. Let
> me know and I will cross-post if required.
>
> Cheers
> rcr
>
>
>
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