[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Doug Reeder]

Have you considered using the modules package for path management.  
Using modules with one command you can switch your path (or most any  
part of your environment) form one thing to another and then back.

Doug Reeder
On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:

> 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/>
>
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