On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:26:13AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >> Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Absolutely! This is what I meant to say. > > Oh, sorry, I missunderstood.
It looked that way :) > > Shipping the mesademos package in binary form does not make any > > sense. There are too many libGL implementations floating around for > > that. > > Actually, this is a tempting reason to ship them as binaries. The > program *can not* fail with "undefined symbol foobar". If it does, > either the program is badly broken or the OpenGL implementation used to > compile it is even more broken. But no, I'm not going to do this for > this reason. Like Zeph said, though, the packages are most useful in source *because* you can use different libGL implementations to compile them. As I understand it (and I'm probably wrong), libGL implementations vary in the DRI project from one family of drivers to the next. Shipping binaries simply isn't a good idea the way I see it. (I smoke a lot of crack, though, so don't quote me) > > Why compress them at all? > > Policy. I would install the files on > /usr/shared/doc/mesademos/examples, which makes them documentation, > which falls under this: > > Any additional documentation that comes with the package may be > installed at the discretion of the package maintainer. Text > documentation should be installed in a directory > `/usr/share/doc/<package>', where <package> is the name of the > package, and compressed with `gzip -9' unless it is small. I see. Have you considered a better place for this to go? What about converting it from a Documentation class package to something that would fit under /usr/share/mesademos or similar? <I'm going to contradict myself here> What about going ahead and shipping them as a binary that *would* fit under /usr/bin or similar; going on and compiling them against the standard shipping Mesa package. This would mean that people using alternate libGLs would have to become familiar with dpkg-buildpkg (actually, I usually just use `apt-get source -b packagename'), but that may be a smaller price to pay in the long run. </contradiction> -- -=|JP|=- "This space intentionally left blank." Jon Pennington | Debian 2.4 -o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | Proud Husband and Father _\_V
