[quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2017/09/04 at 15:05 -0500] >The one question I have is: Should I just instruct to unpack in the home >directory or should I advise that a directory should be made within the home >directory for compiling and managing svn, git and other source downloads? I >actually think I may change my own practice now that I realize what my >assumptions were.
It all depends on how organized a person wishes to be. My personal recommendation would be to create a directory named Projects/ (not src/), and then, in it, to have one directory per project that I'm working on. There's no need to separate svn projects from git projects. Also, I always recommend unpacking an archive into a directory that's known to be empty. The reason is that you never know what you'll be getting. Some archives, for example, don't have a unique root subdirectory. It's far safer to unpack an archive with a root subdirectory into an empty directory, and then move the root and remove the empty directory as needed, than it is to unpack an archive without a root subdirectory into a directory that already contains other things. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | http://Mielke.cc/ Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | The Bible is the very Word of God. _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
