2012/3/26 Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com>:
> On 26 March 2012 07:43, Juan Pablo Carbajal <carba...@ifi.uzh.ch> wrote:
>> 2012/3/26 c. <carlo.defa...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> On 26 Mar 2012, at 00:59, Carnë Draug wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's what I meant. But I don't think such situation would demand
>>>> much more from the package mantainer, a perl script could be easily
>>>> cooked that would deal with the mutiple inst/ files. The only problem
>>>> would be with mutiple src/ and but unless the package has complex
>>>> Makefile, it shouldn't be much more work to adjust it at release time.
>>>>
>>>> Carnë
>>>
>>> Actually there is no multible inst/ directories, what Juan Pablo refers to 
>>> as subpackages
>>> are just subdirectories of one single inst/ directory, have a look at 'ocs' 
>>> or 'geometry'
>>> for an example.
>>>
>>> What one needs to do is just to descend recursively into such directories 
>>> and install files in them.
>>> The only difficulty I see with this approach is dealing automaticallywith 
>>> 'private' directories
>>> and class directories.
>>>
>>> c.
>>
>> Are we going to solve this with a perl script or at installation time
>> with pre_install. m and PKG_ADD?
>
> I think a perl script would be better. The pre_install and PKG_ADD
> approach are more complicate to write and to cover corner cases and
> seem to be failing. I'll try to write something this morning.
>
> Carnë

I am not sure that the idea of flatting the structure during install
convince me. Is there a way to keep the folder structure and just
manage/merge the src files with more care?
Or is this just a pain in the wossname?

-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/

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