[Geany-devel] geanylua install paths (was Re: Problems running geanylua)

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Mon Jul 21 12:40:40 UTC 2008


On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:04:53 +0100, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:54:50 +0200
> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> 
> > But I'm wondering if the default path of this support library is a
> > good choice:
> > /usr/local/share/geany/plugins/geanylua/libgeanylua.so
> > 
> > IMO this violates the FHS, binary files (.so) should not go into
> > data dir ($prefix/share). Instead, I think something like
> > $prefix/lib/geany/geanylua/libgeany.so would fit better or directly
> > in Geany's libdir, $prefix/lib/geany/ which would make
> > installation/uninstallation easier as not another directory has to
> > been added/removed.
> 
> Yes, I think this would be better.
> 
> Maybe all plugins should go in $prefix/lib/geany/plugins in case
> sometime we want to make a shared library for Geany for plugins to
> link to - currently it would be assumed to be a plugin.

Even if this would be the case (libgeany.so), I think it would be still
fine to have them all in $prefix/lib/geany. Unless we would end up with
an empty $prefix/lib/geany and $prefix/lib/geany/plugin_foo*.so files.
Nothing bad in general but one more directory level to take care of.

Regards,
Enrico

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