[sword-devel] RPM package improvements

[Daniel Glassey]

the dev package is also useful for people who want to build an app like bibletime or 
gnomesword or their own using the 'stable' library in the rpm. Sounds like a good idea to 
me :)

Daniel

On 22 May 2002 at 19:28, Martin Gruner sent forth the message:

> > As was mentioned, they are only installed with the devel package.  The
> > question was: when the devel package *is* installed, should the man pages
> > go in the /usr/share/doc/sword-devel-1.5.3 directory, where they are out of
> > the way but harder to consult, or in the /usr/share/man/man3 directory.
> 
> Sorry for misunderstanding your posting -- please be patient with me as a 
> non-native speaker.
> Hm. I am not convinced of the need for a dev package though. Whoever wants to 
> develop should use (anonymous) cvs. There is probably only need for a 
> well-written sword rpm that users could install (just the lib), or what do 
> you think?
> 
> Atm BibleTime rpms include a static sword in the binary. We have to supply 
> additional files (like locales) as well, which can conflict if users already 
> have a sword rpm installed. Now if a good sword rpm exists, we can probably 
> switch over to requiring that one and have sword dynamic. I think this would 
> be the cleaner and more obvious solution. Thanks for your work on it thus 
> far! I'd be glad if you could continue to maintain this (if wished by the 
> sword masters) a bit (esp. the spec file).
> Btw: hopefully the cvs will be split soon, so that the apps stuff goes in 
> separate modules and only the lib and related stuff stays in.
> 
> Martin
>