Re: Source code location?
In article <[🔎] m0zeKcm-000IiwC@polya>, jdg@maths.qmw.ac.uk (Julian Gilbey) writes:
> I am trying to repackage a new upstream Stanford GraphBase (sgb). I
> would like to include the source code in the .deb package, as the
> value of the included programs is really as a demonstration of what
> the library code can do (libgb), and the documentation of the
> library is in its literate source code.
Hmm. Interesting. So how do you use it? You *extend* the library?
Or you just read about it? ;)
> So here's the question: where do I place the CWEB source code? Do I
> put it in:
> o /usr/share/sgb although the use of /usr/share is not particularly
> well documented, or
It's documented in the FHS standard,
<URL:http://www.pathname.com/fhs/>, which is not officially sanctioned
by policy, but, nevertheless, is the right place for architecture
independant *data* files (or scripts).
> o /usr/lib/sgb, especially as /usr/lib/sgb/data is where the
> datasets for the library are stored, or
> o /usr/doc/sgb/examples, since they are somewhere between examples
> and the documentation?
> My gut feeling is to go for /usr/lib/sgb, but I would like advice
> before I proceed.
My gut feeling would be under /usr/doc/sgb/examples, I suppose.
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