On 11/27/11 22:29, John wrote:
Hi!
> The FHS is a Linux standard that describes the directory structure
[...]
> Since the engines are executable code, and are usable outside of Scid,
> they should be stored in /usr/local/bin or maybe /usr/local/games.
>
> On a side note, since users may already have some of the engines
> installed, building them from source should be optional, and their
> binaries should be delivered in separate containers, whether packages as
> debs or requivalent (and so install to /usr/bin etc) or tarballs which
> users unpack into /usr/local/bin etc.
Perfectly agree with you, in principle. The reason why it is handled
differently at the moment is in fact due to "this other OS-like entity"
that doesn't care about FHS at all. Additionally, Scids build structure
is grown over the years. You may notice that ./configure is some
tcl-script and not what you might imagine it is. Joost started some work
on Scids build structure, but I'm not sure if he already succeeded. In
case you have some code here you might want to team up with him.
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