[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Tables directory
- From: "Eitan Isaacson" <eitan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:25:48 +0200
Hey John.
I am right now working on merging your latest tarball, and your
autotools work with mine in SVN.
This is my request: Please use the SVN codebase for any future
release, and make sure that any changes you make go into SVN.
Christian seems to be eager to help on this front too. I am trying to
create one canonical tree of liblouis on SVN and end the confusion
that exists today.
Cheers,
Eitan.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:26 PM, John J. Boyer
<johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eitan,
>
> Thanks for your explanation. I thought /usr/share was just for
> documentation and /etc was for data. That is basically what I had been
> seeing in other projects. When I started work on liblouis I didn't have
> much background in anything except braille and C. I've been learning
> slowly. There seemed to b a lot of things that I should know, but the
> people who did know them seemed unwibling to help me learn them quickly.
> So I'm really happy that you and Christian have come forward.
>
> I'll change the next liblouis tarball to put the tables directory in
> /user/share and also put the lbx_files directory in liblouisxml there.
>
> I don't know how I missed the post in which you gave instructions for
> svn and another post where you answered some questions about autotools.
> That is a communication failure that may have produced some
> misimpressions.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:04:07AM +0200, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> One of the differences between our liblouis versions is that you opted
>> to put the tables in /etc. I chose /usr/share.
>> After looking again at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard[1], I still
>> think the tables belong under /usr/share.
>> /etc is for host-specific configuration files[2], while /usr/share is
>> for architecture-independent data files[3].
>>
>> While a user might choose to tweak the files, this would not be
>> typical use. She could either copy the table files,
>> and create a personalized version, or she could modify it in-place
>> with superuser privileges, just like editing a etc file.
>>
>> Also, the /etc directory is problematic because it is outside of the
>> standard install prefix,
>> so exceptions sometimes need to be made if we are configured to an
>> alternative prefix.
>>
>> 1. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
>> 2.
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION
>> 3.
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA
>> For a description of the software and to download it go to
>> http://www.jjb-software.com
>
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>
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