At 13:32 -0800 2006/11/28, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
As far as I recall, that only step that requires
sudo, i.e. moving the library to /usr/lib, can
be eliminated if the startup scripts (jw, etc.)
made use of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH/DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
.dmg is typically not an installation package, but
a simple self-mountable archive, which has a
drag and drop installable bundle, without requirement
for any standard application folder, e.g. could be
/Tools or /Util. This brings a question of
separation of J core stuff from user stuff, which may
or may not be a good thing.
Yes, setting paths avoids the need for SU status, I
take advantage of that in some Linux systems that I have
access too, but don't have authority to add anything to
/usr/lib - modifying my own $PATH variables works nicely.
In my experience, most installation packages arrive on
my machine as a .dmg file that mounts and then you drag
the installation package to where you want it to live.
(or something not much more complex).
I agree completely with your point (separation of J core
...) being problematic. Whatever evolves, I would prefer
to keep things in the Unix-like way that I have on my OS X
(where j601 lives in /usr/local/lib) for ease of working
between Mac and Unix/Linux.
- joey
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