etiquette of sharing executable files
As per recent post ( don't want to trash somebody's home directory ) I
was wondering what is the etiquette of sharing executable files.
I've never really thought about giving executable files to anybody but
just recently while I'm getting my bits of code to work I was thinking
"I have to be a bit careful what I put here because I might delete
something I'd be unhappy about.
And then hmmm, if I did give this to somebody else if they didn't know
what did what they might trash they're home directory.
I decided to follow the advice and not delete anything and I don't need
to need to renumber now.
And I decided to go through everything and put in error checking as much
as able.
So the question is about the etiquette.
Install scripts could make directories willy nilly in user home
directory but you might think that could be rude ?
And what happens if by mischance there already exists a directory with
the same name ?
I think the way would be to make a tar file with the wanted
subdirectories and the executable that doesn't touch anything except the
directories in the directory it is untarred within.
seems with
use File::Basename;
use Cwd ;
you can check if the basename is equal to the directory it's supposed to
be in and die if not.
Now I just need to make the executable not writeable and have the
several variables in a text file that I get in some fashion.
Do those things seem like sensible considerations for exchanging
executables ?
mick
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