the dev package is also useful for people who want to build an app like bibletime or gnomesword or their own using the 'stable' library in the rpm. Sounds like a good idea to me :)
Daniel On 22 May 2002 at 19:28, Martin Gruner sent forth the message: > > As was mentioned, they are only installed with the devel package. The > > question was: when the devel package *is* installed, should the man pages > > go in the /usr/share/doc/sword-devel-1.5.3 directory, where they are out of > > the way but harder to consult, or in the /usr/share/man/man3 directory. > > Sorry for misunderstanding your posting -- please be patient with me as a > non-native speaker. > Hm. I am not convinced of the need for a dev package though. Whoever wants to > develop should use (anonymous) cvs. There is probably only need for a > well-written sword rpm that users could install (just the lib), or what do > you think? > > Atm BibleTime rpms include a static sword in the binary. We have to supply > additional files (like locales) as well, which can conflict if users already > have a sword rpm installed. Now if a good sword rpm exists, we can probably > switch over to requiring that one and have sword dynamic. I think this would > be the cleaner and more obvious solution. Thanks for your work on it thus > far! I'd be glad if you could continue to maintain this (if wished by the > sword masters) a bit (esp. the spec file). > Btw: hopefully the cvs will be split soon, so that the apps stuff goes in > separate modules and only the lib and related stuff stays in. > > Martin >
