On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:56:54PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 07 Nov 2002 12:30:59 +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > 
> > On 07 Nov 2002 13:02:17 +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > > 
> > > And the man page references the scripts
> > > 
> > >   fvwm_make_browse_menu.sh
> > >   fvwm_make_directory_menu.sh
> > > 
> > > as an example for dynamic menu actions (which was the only reason
> > > they were written - not the functionality they provide).  They
> > > should both be distributed and installed, regardless of any
> > > feelings whether shell or perl scripts are the "right thing".
> > 
> > The right thing here is to include them into distribution since they are
> > referenced from the man page. But I don't think anything that is currently
> > in utils/ should be installed, if you feel differently, move it to bin/.
> 
> Actually, if the only reason is to give an example as you correctly
> pointed, they should not be installed to /usr/bin (or similar $bindir).
> 1) They may be be distributed and a link in the man page to
> ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/devel/sources/utils/ may be given.
> 2) Or they may be installed to $docdir (I hope to add it later anyway)
> together with README, INSTALL.fvwm etc.. Currently this may be $datadir.
> 
> If any of this is a good solution to you, they should not be in bin/,
> but in utils/.

Theoretically yes, but they should still be installed for
backward compatibility.  People may rely on the being installed.
(But I'm not sure wheter they were installed in previous
versions).

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^
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