Re: Re: Finding pvconv

Roger Binns <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 21, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Derrick Hudson wrote:
> Based on pvconv's proprietary nature perhaps a better policy for that
> and similar components is to instruct the user to install it in a
> certain BitPim directory.  For example, BitPim\helpers\ on Windows and
> $prefix/lib/bitpim/helpers on UNIX ($prefix would typically be
> /usr/local or /usr or maybe /opt/BitPim).

The BitPim directories are version specific (ie include the version
number).  That scheme will also cause grief with the installers
since they only uninstall what they install.

I am just going to leave it at the current simple scheme unless
it becomes an actual problem for people.

Roger



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