Re: ✘example

[Gary E. Miller]

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
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