Re: What configuration prefix ?
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:06:37PM -0800, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to try to get gnome-libs to build some snapshot-style
> packages from out of the CVS.
>
> Where should we install this stuff?
>
> I was thinking we could put everything under /opt/dsp
>
> Where dsp = Debian Snapshots Project. Of course, dsp also stands for
> "digital signal processor". Do you think people will get confused?
Yes. Acronym overuse is bad, and DSP has been around for a long time.
How about /opt/snapshots?
> What do people think of using /opt? I think it's a better choice than
> putting things under /usr/local. And we don't want to put things in
> the FSSTND locations, because we want to be able to install these at
> the same time as the released Debian packages without causing
> conflicts.
I'm not fond of /opt in general, but I agree the alternatives are
worse.
> Also, how's this for a naming scheme?
>
> Regular Packages Snapshot Packages
> ---------------- -----------------
> gnome-hello dsp-gnome-hello
>
> The idea is that both sets of packages can be installed at the same
> time. By having the 'dsp-' prefix at the beginning of the name, the
> packages have a nice sort order.
>
> Another issue that the recent Gnome freeze just brought up: now there
> are two branches of the CVS - a stable branch and an unstable branch.
> I'll follow the stable branch for now with my snapshots. But how
> should we handle the situation in the future where there are two
> branches we want to track?
Perhaps snap-stable-gnome-hello? Or dsp-stable-gnome-hello if you
prefer, but it's less immediately obvious. And /opt/snapshots-stable?
Dan
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