On Nov 13, 2009, at 7:39 AM, Rainer Orth wrote: >> /usr/postgres/: >> 8.2/ >> 8.3/ >> >> I am happy to use whichever scheme is considered the correct >> precedent. > > Fine: in fact I think this is a job for ARC, to provide guidance here.
This very question is a topic in 2009/606, also going on currently. It has not received a huge amount of discussion but the few opinions expressed are in favor of .../$COMPONENT/$VERSION/* directory hierarchy where applicable. That is also the more common layout among existing set of precedents, although there is a little bit of every variant in current Solaris. -- Jyri Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com .