Hi Christophe, On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:03:12PM +0200, Schplurtz wrote: > The executables are now installed in /usr/lib/gmt/bin. This directory is > not in a user's PATH. So, it simply and completely breaks old scripts.
Right.
> One could argue that users now have to use "GMT command" instead of
> "command", in this case, the answer is that if the binary files are
> in /usr/bin, users CAN use either syntax, AND it does not break years
> of habits and old scripts.
>
> Hope this makes sense
The reason to put GMT binaries into a directory other than /usr/bin is
the name space pollution that would result. Currently, GMT comes with
119 commands and only 15 of them are easily identified as belonging to
GMT (by having a gmt prefix). The institute where I used to work uses
Seismic Unix as well and it already has two utilities with a name that
is used in GMT as well: pscontour and psimage. It is quite frustrating
having to debug a script that uses either GMT or Seismic Unix depending
on what comes first on $PATH.
Therefore the Debian package will stay that way. It should be documented
though, which is why I won't close this bug right now.
Greetings
Torsten
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