Re: Parrot

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:01:09AM -0500, Steve wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to build a Parrot deb package but by default parrot installs 
> into /usr/local/parrot/0.1.0/...   Debian policy precludes a package from 
> installing into /usr/local and /usr.  Therefore, within which directory 
> or directories should this package be installed?
> 
> The hierarchy is:
> 
> dir:  parrot/0.1.0
> dir:  parrot/0.1.0/bin

/usr/bin

> file: parrot/0.1.0/bin/parrot  (the executable)

/usr/bin/parrot

> dir:  parrot/0.1.0/bin/languages
> dir:  parrot/0.1.0/bin/languages/imcc
> dir:  parrot/0.1.0/lib
> dir:  parrot/0.1.0/lib/blib
> dir:  parrot/0.1.0/lib/blib/lib
> file: parrot/0.1.0/lib/blib/lib/libparrot.a
> 

/usr/lib/parrot/0.1.0/

Probably the best thing to do is versioning as in perl, but this is
definitively a choice due to program structure, roadmap and
backcompatibiily.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine