Re: [OpenVerse] Proposal for reorganization of Openverse directory structure

[Cruise <cruise@openverse.org>]

I still want to see these standards.

where are you coming up with this information. where is it posted. 

What I mean is.. no one person's guideline is better than any other pertson's
guidline. if there is something that a group of people have put together and
published I would be very interested in looking at it. Otherwise, I see no
reason to change the install location.


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> The current scheme of lumping everything into /usr/lib/OpenVerse has a
> few problems as I see it.
> 
> 1) It doesn't adhere to the Linux filesystem standards.
> 
> 2) makes it difficult to adhere to the Debian Policy for making a debian
> package.
> 
> 
> So I propose the following changes.. feel free to banter about these on
> the list.
> 
> 
> /usr/lib/OpenVerse/lib  should be moved into /usr/lib/openverse
> 
> /usr/lib/OpenVerse/rooms,sobjects,help,icons,images,rimages,simages,anims,download
> 
> should be moved into /usr/share/openverse
> 
> /usr/lib/OpenVerse/server.cfg and passageways.txt should be in
> /etc/openverse/
> 
> /usr/lib/OpenVerse/OpenVerse.tcl and /usr/lib/OpenVerse/server.tcl
> should be renamed
> 
> /usr/bin/openverse and /usr/bin/ovserver respectively. 
> 
> I know this gets rid of the .tcl extension on these files, but going by
> example of other tcl programs, the main binary usually doesn't have a
> .tcl extension.
> 
> /usr/lib/OpenVerse/plugins should be /usr/lib/openverse/plugins
> 
> 
> As a possibility /usr/lib/OpenVerse/help might be better served in the
> long run in /usr/doc/openverse. Dunno about that one though. 
> 
> OpenVerse need a Makefile in the source distro for Linux that "make
> install"s these files 
> to these locations.
> 
> However, it should default to /usr/local in the Makefile.
> 
> (It should actually include a $(PREFIX) option in the Makefile which can
> be set to /usr or /usr/local depending on wether it's being packaged or
> not)
> 
> 
> I hope Ya'll all understood that ;)
> 
> Now may much discussion insue.
> 
> echo
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