Hello All!
Imagine a virtual machine, %VMNAME%, which executes a arch-independent
bytecode. Where packager should store it? Most notable candidates are
/usr/share/%VMNAME%, /usr/lib/%VMNAME%.
So far Java has /usr/share/java/, Perl uses %{perl_vendorlib}
(/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl), PHP uses /usr/share/php, R uses
/usr/share/R/library, Ruby uses /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby,
Javascripts are installed into %{_datadir}/javascript, Lisp is using
%{_datadir}/common-lisp, etc
But
Python stores its arch-independent bytecode into
/usr/lib/python?.?/site-packages/, Node.js prefers
%{_prefix}/lib/node_modules, Mono is using /usr/lib/mono.
It seems that there is no consensus on this matter. I personally tend
to agree with those who use /usr/share, but for example systemd stores
everything in /usr/lib including arch-independent stuff.
I wonder what others are thinking about this? Which is the preferred
place for storing arch-independent bytecode?
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With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.
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