OpenEuphoria

Standardizing file locations

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.c??> Jan 12, 2008
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One of the goals of getting euphoria installed via a package manager, is
that we could also install our own libraries in a similar way.  In 
particular, this would be convenient for wxEuphoria, since it needs to
install a shared library.  Having looked at the way perl handles these
sorts of issues, here's what I'm thinking now:

Standard includes (i.e., the normal $EUDIR/include dir) go right in 
/usr/share/euphoria

3rd party installed includes could go into their own subdir of
/usr/share/euphoria

That way, we wouldn't have to add anything to a .conf file, and we could
simply say (as a standard way of using these things):

include somelib/lib.e

This could be the 'standard' way of doing things for other platforms as well.
It would work whether the library were installed 'properly' on the system,
or if it were simply put in as a subdir from the main app, which would 
make distribution easier and cleaner.

Likewise, documentation could go into /usr/share/doc/euphoria/somelib
But where to put demos?  I think the best place is probably to stick them
in either 
    /usr/share/euphoria/demo/somelib 
 or 
    /usr/share/euphoria/somelib/demo

Given this, here is my current thoughts on how to package wxEuphoria:

There will be two packages:  wxeu and wxeu-dev

This is based on reading the Debian policy manual regarding shared 
libraries.  Basically, the wxeu package would only contain the shared
library itself.  The dev package would have the euphoria include file,
as well as the documentation and the demos.

So I'd put the files:

package:  wxeu
/usr/lib/libwxeu.so  (actually, I'm looking to adopt the standard versioning
                      methodology, so it would probably be something like
                      libwxeu.so.12)

package:  wxeu-dev
/usr/lib/libwxeu.so  (symbolic link to the versioned library)
/usr/share/euphoria/wx/wxeud.e
/usr/share/euphoria/demo/wx/* (all the demos)
/usr/share/doc/euphoria/wx/*html (all the docs)

I'd also distribute the standard source .tar.gz package so that people
could easily build from source.

Matt