On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> > > > - location of files. In linux there should not be any /usr/demos. All
> > > > goes
> > in
> > > > /usr/share. Specific changes are:
> > >
> > > Isn't this somewhat of a religious issue ? Some like it in /usr/man others
> > > like it in /usr/share/man ... It almost seems better if $(IVROOT) would
> > > specify everything up until /man. That way you could set it to '/usr' or
> > > '/usr/share' according to taste, but maybe that will break other things.
> >
> > My thoughts exactly. Besides, some of the viewers and demos have hardcoded
> > the
> > paths to the help files.
> >
>
> But that should be changed. If you port a package, you have to make the
> package behave like a Linux package, not perturb the standard linux file
> system to make it look like an SGI.
>
> If not, you can end like Microsoft puttin DLLs inside an SGI to run XSI.
Agreed, but as the name indicates, it's *Open* inventor. Not Linux
Inventor. Whatever is done should be flexible enough to support both
Linux and IRIX as well as possibly other OS'es. Hardcoding for Linux is
no better than your Microsoft example.
Rasmus
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