Re: A proposal to remove version number in installed directories of Evolution, and to rename ximian-connector-setup

hi 

The current status of Evolution installed directories are: 
/usr/lib/evolution/2.x
/usr/libexec/evolution/2.x
/usr/share/evolution/2.x

and 
/usr/include/evolution-2.6		=>/usr/include/evolution/2.6
/usr/include/evolution-data-server-1.6
=>/usr/include/evolution-data-server/1.6
/usr/include/libgtkhtml-3.8		=>/usr/include/libgtkhtml/3.8
/usr/include/libsoup-2.2		=>/usr/include/libsoup/2.2
/usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2	=>/usr/lib/evolution-data-server/1.2
/usr/share/evolution-data-server-1.6
=>/usr/share/evolution-data-server/1.6

Our proposal is to change all those in second part into those after the
"=>", so that better consistency can be achieved. 

--Irene

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 19:21 +0800, Irene (Shi Ying) Huang wrote:
> hi, Harish and Evolution hackers
> 
> Our first concern here is: We notice that there are several
> versioned-directories installed by Evolution in /usr/include, /usr/lib
> and /usr/share,
> like /usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2, /usr/include/evolution-2.6. We
> understand that this is thus designed to accommodate coexistence of
> multiple version. 
> 
> However, we think there is another possible solution to make coexistence
> of multiple versions possible, and which is better as far as we are
> concerned. Like what we have done with the evolution libs in /usr/lib
> (they are all put in to /usr/lib/evolution/$version-number instead
> of /usr/lib/evolution-$version-number). In this way, all this files can
> be placed in directories that easily get cluttered. 
> 
> For example, in our opinion this is good:
> 
>    /usr/share/evolution/1.x/
>    /usr/share/evolution/2.x/
> 
> This is bad
> 
>    /usr/share/evolution-1.x
>    /usr/share/evolution-2.x
> 
> It is bad because this clutters up a directory (/usr/share) that many
> different projects install to.  If a project installs version numbered
> stuff, they should install it to private locations that are specific
> to the application (such as /usr/share/evolution).
> 
> We'd appreciate comments on this proposal. 
> 
> The second proposal we'd like to put forward here is that: shouldn't it
> be better if we rename the existing ximian-connector-setup to be
> exchange-connector-setup, which makes more sense to the users? 
> 
> If you are OK with this proposals, I would be happy to provide patches. 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> --Irene 
> 
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