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Re: What improvements for Upp on Linux to comply with freedesktop? [message #10755 is a reply to message #10754]

Fri, 27 July 2007 19:04

ebojd
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Registered: January 2007
Location: USA

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It would also be productive to try to conform to something like the Linux Standard Base (LSB) for installation locations, guidelines, etc.

The single .config path for applications is really nice. I would prefer to see the versioning modeled after KDE:

/home/${USERNAME}/.config/upp/${VERSION}/appname/*

That way all UPP files regardless of version can be maintained. I simply skimmed the URL listed and may read them in detail later. Another thing I would like to interject here (which may or may not be covered in the suggested standards) is to have a single directory tree for each config which are *overloadable* by the user configs. Example, the location of the uppsrc tree:

/usr/share/upp/2007.1/.config/uppsrc.var

UPP = "/usr/share/upp/2007.1/uppsrc";
OUTPUT = "/old_root/upp/devout";
COMMON = "/usr/share/upp/2007.1/Common";

which is then oveloaded with any settings in:

/home/username/.config/upp/2007.1/uppsrc.var

OUTPUT = "/home/${USERNAME}/upp/devout";

I would also like to see the addition of BIN_DIR, LIB_DIR, DATA_DIR, and CONFIG_DIR to help manage installation of binary, library, data and config files.

When I started on of my current projects for which I choose U++ I had started writing all my code using GNU programming standards. Unfortunately, U++ and GNU standards do not mix well (like naming conventions). There are, however, some guidelines which would be good to glean from them such as *all* makefiles which include an install directive *must* also include an uninstall.

I have also mentioned wishing an extension (for package organizer) that allows developers to allow pkg-config to be used. Something similar to:

LINUX: `pkg-config --libs x11`

More later I have to go...

EBo --

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