On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 02:03:52PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 04:30:23AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 02:06:19AM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 02:43:13AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > > > Why on earth do we have to repeat the mistake of the past by
> > > > putting the version number in the project name *again*? Every
> > > > other project manages backwards incompatible releases just fine,
> > > > only fvwm changes its name with each major release. This just
> > > > complicates things, and helps nobody. That's what configure's
> > > > binary suffix is for.
> > >
> > > So what would you rather, and to what extent should this happen?
> >
> > See attached patch. The Makefile.am need some tuning because some
> > names are hard coded in install...local rules (FvwmCommand.sh,
> > FvwmCommand.pm, xpmroot*, fvwm2*, message catalogs). It's easy to
> > firgure out; just configure with --prefix=some-private-dir, ass
> > program-suffix and program-prefix, then install and see which
> > files end up in the wrong place.
>
> Right. I'd forgotten that automake allowed for --program-{prefix,suffix} --
> that makes things much easier. So I'll rejig some things and use this.
>
> I can see there's a few things which will need adjusting. We won't need the
> fvwm2 symlink at all since that would be misleading, surely? The other parts
> you've identified shouldn't be too difficult to fix.
> I'm unsure what should
> happen with the gettext files, and if they need namespacing at all.
As with my path modules don't get a suffix (unless installed in
bin/), the same concern applies to the module manpages. It would
be confusing to have a module "FvwmButtons" with a manpage
"FvwmButtons-3.1". But if the module name is not suffixed, there
cannot be multiple versions of the manpage installed.
> One observation I've got is:
>
> > +transform=`echo "${program_transform_name}" | "$SED" -e 's/\\$\\$/\\$/'`
> > +PPACKAGE=`echo "${PACKAGE}" | "$SED" -e "${transform}"`
>
> Is this not what the option '--program-transform-name=program' is doing? See:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Renaming.html
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt
