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Re: ✘example
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: ✘example |
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Sun, 7 Mar 2021 11:47:53 -0800 |
Yo Greg!
On Sun, 07 Mar 2021 14:35:11 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:
> "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:
>
> > gpsd already has a ton of good "examle" files, in clients/ and
> > contrib/, and the coders ignore them. They seem to want
> > Stackoverflow style commentary about snippeets. Then get angry the
> > snippets are not complete programs.
>
> Perhaps in library man page just suggest several files in the sources
> to read, and remind people that if they aren't willing to do that,
> they need a consultant, not free help.
Which is what I have been saying on the email lists, and it has not worked.
Newbies need their hand held.
> > Sadly distros have not been installing the client/ code, or contrib/
> > code, why would they install examples/ ?
>
> My standard approach is to do a build and install and then deal with
> files that are in the wrong place, and I think that's what most
> packagers do. So the first step, if you want examples installed, is
> to have the default build install them.
And then the packagers split them into a -dev package, and no one
installs them.
> Different packaging systems have different notions of where they go.
> Hence my suggestion that docdir and exampledir be settable as
> variables. on the build command line.
Gentoo uses neither. Has to be in /share/
RGDS
GARY
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Re: ✘example, Joshua Judson Rosen, 2021/03/07