On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:17:35AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Not quite happy. I hope if you had comments on my last note, > about hard-wiring paths in configure time. It's really a big > question for me, where to hard wire paths? I'm to write a suite
If you can, don't hardwire them at all. If you can't configure time is the best thing, I think. > of Python scripts for managing course material here in U of T, > and I don't want to go through all that autoconf stuff. Well, I It's actually quite easy. If you're writing pure python, you can hook into the python installation process automagically as another option. > can go by just hard-wiring /etc/mypackage and ~/.mypackage/. ~/.mypackage is reasonable, /etc/mypackage less so, IMHO. What if the user wants it in /usr/local/etc/ or /opt? autoconf is the way to go. > > > PS. Perhaps it's too soon, but: "Everybody, come to Ottawa Linux > > > Symposium '2004 http://www.linuxsymposium/. It's a great event". > > > > Oh, I'll be there, you can count on it. I decided not to go to > > linux.conf.au even though my paper was accepted to be extra certain > > I'll make it to OLS. See you there :-) > > Pretty far AU. So, waiting for you on the reg. desk. Oh, you're helping ajh and co run it this year? cool! -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://www.livejournal.com/~mulix "the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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