Re: Library with "demos", where should demos go?
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:06:14PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:51:51PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > Unless the demos are useful for something other than a demonstration, I
> > would not install them in /usr/bin. Instead, I would put them in
> > /usr/share/doc/package_name/examples/. I'd also put the demo source in
> > there.
>
> The source is fine there, but binaries must not go in /usr/share. If the
> demos are useful in binary form, they should go in /usr/bin. If they are
> only useful as programming examples, they should ship in source form only.
Wouldn't it be more problematic than necassary in case the library
changes so-name? You'd have to make the different version conflict then,
as they contain the same files in /usr/bin.
Michael, just my 0.02 DM^WEUR
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