Re: Include in PATH

[Beco <rcb@beco.cc>]

On 13 October 2013 00:25, Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> wrote:

> You have to decide at what point you want to make the decision between
> global or user scores. At install time is a bad point. The two better
> options are
>  configure time
>  run time
[cut]

Hi Craig,

Good point. I'll move the decision point to ./configure.

[cut]
>>    Would it be polite to do something like:
>>    echo "PATH=~./gamedir/:$PATH" >> ~/.profile
> Uh no, you never do that. Have a sane default and let the user know how
> to set it. PATH is where the binaries are, not score/config/data files.

I'm talking about binaries in this email.  But since you already
answered to put the binary always in /usr/games/, so I don't need  to
change PATH anymore.

Thanks a lot.

Beco.





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