Re: Language module support modified

Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.aap.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Aschwin Marsman wrote:

> Quoting Adriaan de Groot <adridg-FlD2LfDziEhmR6Xm/[email protected]>:
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > > Like someone else already pointed out, /usr/local is rather
> > > > unportable. I presume you mean "the OS-specific place for "extra
> > > > software"".
> > >
> > > And how would Aap find out where that is?
> > >
> > > I could add a variable in default.aap, but I found one place where the
> > > /usr/local/... directory is used without reading it: filetype detection.
> > > Perhaps this is something that must be done when installing Aap?
> 
> > 	if os == "posix":
> > 		if test -d "/opt":
> > 			os_local_dir="/opt"
> > 		else:
> > 			os_local_dir="/usr/local"
> > 	else:
> > 		os_local_dir="C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM"
> > 
> > That's a start, isn't it?
> 
> This is a start, although it's administrator specific if he
> prefers /opt i.s.o. /usr/local. So we can choose a default, 
> but it should be possible for the user to override this choice,
> e.g. with an environment variable.
> 
> Below is a long explanation from the (Linux) Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
> about the use of /usr/local & /opt.

From this I understand that "/opt/aap" would hold the installed Aap
program.  Thus it contains the installed modules and tools, not the ones
that a system administrator adds for his system.

Also, suppose that a Linux distribution decides to include Aap in the
base system (one can dream :-), isn't /usr/local/share the appropriate
place to put additional tools and modules?

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