Re: [Libreoffice] [MacOS] Starting dev-install is hairy

I've had trouble working out, from the code, what a user installation path
is.  There are two classes called Bootstrap, and my one reads the details
from a map, which I assume is populated somewhere.

Is there a broad-brush guide to how the code works, for newbies?

James.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>wrote:

> On 01/03/2012 02:35 AM, James C wrote:
>
> > What now strikes me as more likely is:
> >   - each process from each version of LibreOffice cooperates with
> > other processes, so that only one LO process is running
> >   - (probably) the cooperation extends across versions
> >   - I don't recall whether I got a window, or only a change of current
> > application
> >   - I may have had a change to an already-running process from the other
> > version
> >   - (probably) closing that to retry enabled me to have the version I
> > wanted
>
> Yes, that's another source of confusion.  Upon startup, an soffice
> instance tries to connect to a "named pipe" with a well-known name (and
> sets that pipe up in listening mode if it does not yet exist).  That way,
> only one instance will ever be running for a given installation. The
> well-known name contains (a hash of) the user installation path, so
> whenever two installations would share a user installation, they are
> connected in this way.  (See desktop/source/app/**officeipcthread.cxx for
> details.)
>
> Stephan