On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:47:28PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 06:57:23AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: > >Are there any guidelines or suggestions regarding packaging > >source, patches and binaries for programs (like Ghostscript) > >that can be built for either Cygwin or Cygwin/XFree86? > > > >Unless I hear a very compelling reason to do otherwise, I'm > >planning on releasing three binary packages and a single > >source package: > > That sounds perfect to me. The only open issue is where to > install the X11 versions of stuff. I'd been strongly suggesting > that all X applications go into /usr/X11R6/bin but I suspect > that this rule may not have been followed.
Ok, that's what I'll do, it seems reasonable to me. > Others have pointed out that distributions like Red Hat just put > the X apps directly into /usr/bin, leaving /usr/X11R6/bin for > the actual XFree86 distribution. Yeah, but I don't know if it's recommended. I wonder what the hierarchical filesystem standard says about this. I'll have to read up on this. > Regardless of this, I think it still makes sense to put X apps in > the X-specific bin directory. Yes, I see your point. I'll make sure that any X11-specific for ghostscript is put in /usr/X11R6. > Of course, then there is my other rule that X apps live in the > release/XFree86 hierarchy. I guess I should amend this rule to > mean "strictly X apps". It wouldn't make sense to scatter your > distribution into different directories when they would nicely > fall into one ghostscript directory and subdirectories. Well, this would be the examples and the font files. I'm leaning to leaving these in /usr/share/ghostscript. BTW, thanks for the input, I really appreciate your time, especially given your project workload :-) -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com
