[Tilesathome] Auto update failed (windows)

[Matthias Julius]

"Ed Loach" <ed at loach.me.uk> writes:

> I may have mentioned it before, but if someone is using (an
> unmodified) tah.pl as the Windows frontend, then when you click
> Start it rebuild tilesAtHome.conf from tilesAtHome.conf and some of
> it's own settings that it stores in the Windows registry. If you
> want to change any settings that can't be set within tah.pl then you
> have to modify one of the local copies of the files that are
> controlled by svn. 
>
> As I now see, Olf made his changes in TilesAtHome.conf.windows,
> which will break the svn update. There is no way with that Windows
> frontend to set RenderStripes in any other way though. I gave up
> using it and have written my own (in VB 2008). I'd offer to share it
> but presently all the paths are hardcoded (in one function which has
> a ToDo to get them from a settings file somewhere). 
>
> One workaround, Olf, is to modify the tah.pl file and delete the
> section of code shown below from somewhere around line 450 in sub
> start_tah. You would then change settings in TilesAtHome.conf and
> not touch the .windows file at all. I suspect any changes you make
> via the tah.pl interface may not work, though from a quick look the
> bit that updates authentication.conf should still work, as *might*
> the bit about proxies.

Is it worth going through that much pain just for not having to run
the client from the command line?

I have no clue myself since I have never tried to do that on Windows.

If it is that much desired to have a Windows frontend (and maybe an X
frontend) I would suggest to develop that in OSM SVN to make it easier
for client developers or anyone else to make modifications that are
necessary because of client changes.

Matthias