On Oct 19, 2011, at 07:45 AM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote:
In looking at improving my packaging for the Debian standard (which
uses the FHS), I see that perhaps I should be installing into the
/opt/<package> hierarchy. Should not that be the case for BRL-CAD,
too?
So this is an old smelly can of worms, but I'll try to stay off the soapbox. ;)
For Debian, using /opt/brlcad/rel-VERSION would be a perfectly acceptable multi-version installation prefix to use and fits within the constraints and design of the FHS. It's a bit too SysV'ish for my taste, but it's their guidelines for apt and reasonable enough in itself for their platform's consistency. For a Debian *apt* description, that would be what I'd think should be used.
For .deb files we put up on Sourceforge or that you put together, however, you can follow the FHS or whatever other convention suits our users. There's just as strong an argument for following the FHS as there is for using our historic path (since that's where any legacy BRL-CAD user has always been told to look). If that's upsetting to new users expecting the FHS, they can make their own .deb or they can work on getting proper apt integration working. For now I leave that decision up to the binary platform maintainer (Jordi) since they're the ones that will get assigned any support requests related to the .deb they pull together. It comes down to making things peculiar for new users or existing users.
That said, I'm opposed to making /opt/brlcad our *project* default for the some of the same reasons the FHS allows X11 in /usr. "An exception is made for the X Window System because of considerable precedent and widely accepted practice." The same can be said of BRL-CAD in /usr/brlcad .. and BRL-CAD has been around using that path even longer than X11! For our own internally distributed releases (the ones that go on Sourceforge), we should be following the HACKING guidelines (i.e., /usr/brlcad/rel-VERSION).
Cheers!
Sean
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