[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Gregory J. Ward]

This seems an acceptable solution to me -- having a second Radiance  
bin directory that people can include in their PATH to get backwards- 
compatibility.  I have no problem with that.  Does anyone else object  
before I implement the necessary changes?

-Greg

> From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd at bzed.de>
> Date: November 3, 2007 1:16:31 PM PDT
>
> Charles Ehrlich wrote:
>> If creating a special Radiance binpath is not acceptable, another  
>> solution is to create the following scene fixing utility for  
>> distribution with Debian Linux Radiance distributions.  A little  
>> messy, but it would work.
>
> Sorry for my late reply, but I'm missing a bit free time for packaging
> work these days.
>
> Creating an extra bin path is not a problem, but this makes things
> unnecessarily confusing for new Radiance users. If you'd like to  
> see the
> Radiance community grow (which is one of the reasons why I've  
> started to
> work on a package for Debian - Radiance is too good to hide it  
> somewhere
> in a small, closed community), things should be as easy as possible.
> This includes binaries in $PATH and their manpages within the manpath.
> I've rarely seen a program which comes with such a good  
> documentation in
> form of manpages, it would be a shame to hide them, just because we  
> move
> all tools into a non-public path.
>
> For those people who add an extra path to their PATH anyway:
> What about creating a directory which contains the compatibility
> symlinks, so you can add this directory to your PATH?
> Like a directory /usr/lib/radiance/compat, with the following synlinks
> as contens:
>
> bin/genbox -> /usr/bin/genrbox
> bin/rview  -> /usr/bin/rvu
> share/man/man1/genbox.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/genrbox.1.gz
> share/man/man1/rview.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/rvu.1.gz
>
> This would also allow you to add /usr/lib/radiance/compat/share/man to
> the manpath to have the manpages available. And new users are able to
> use genrbox/rvu without any extra hassle.
>
> Would this solve the problem?
>
> Also I'd like to know if there're other wishes regarding the Dbeian
> package, if so, I'd like to change things now before it needs to be  
> done
> in a hurry later, and before more new users get used to the current
> structure.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernd
>
> -- 
> Bernd Zeimetz
> <bernd at bzed.de>                         <http://bzed.de/>