Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3CC9B677.3040903@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:20:07 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Earnie Boyd CC: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" , "Gerrit P. Haase" , Jan Nieuwenhuizen Subject: Re: ITP: netpbm References: <87r8l2pf8w DOT fsf AT peder DOT flower> <87r8l2pf8w DOT fsf AT peder DOT flower> <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20020426153847 DOT 02c89b08 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> <3CC9B130 DOT 1000309 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3CC9B278 DOT D4B9C10A AT yahoo DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Earnie Boyd wrote: > So, I would like to see /usr/netpbm/bin. But I don't want to go all-out on the "separate package tree" idea. NO: /usr/netpbm/bin /usr/netpbm/lib /usr/netpbm/include /usr/netpbm/man /usr/netpbm/info Blech! YES: /usr/bin/netpbm/ << the only special case /usr/lib/ /usr/include/ /usr/man/ /usr/info/ XFree86 has a long history of a fully separate tree, and autoconf macros and suchlike have dealt with it for a long time. OTOH, netpbm has no such history (e.g. where to look for pbm.h? where to look for libpgm.a?) so development files should go in the "normal" place. But everything in the "normal" place under /usr/[lib,include,man], except for binaries in /usr/netpbm/bin/ ? That just offends my sense of aesthetics... Besides, we already have a history of /usr/bin/*/ that predates any of the mandates on http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html : ncurses-test-dll/ etc. --Chuck