[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Jack de Valpine]

Hi All,

I will add my vote for Randolph's suggestion, this is what we have been 
doing as well (for a long time too), put both Radiance related binaries 
into a separate path location as well as Radiance related libs. This 
seems much cleaner as far as managing what amounts to a specialized 
toolset anyway.

Regards,

-Jack de Valpine

Randolph Fritz wrote:
> Mmmmm...I'll put forward my suggestion again as probably the best way 
> to both satisfy Debian's namespace requirements and keep existing 
> scene descriptions--the ".rad" language, really--working.  I'd go for 
> putting the binaries in /usr/lib/radiance as a simple way to get them 
> out of the main /usr/bin namespace; it is not terribly hard to add 
> that to your path and I've been doing something similar for a very 
> long time.
>
> Randolph
>
> On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Gregory J. Ward wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm in a quandary on this, because I don't know how valuable 
>> having a Debian package is to the Radiance community relative to 
>> breaking most of the existing scene descriptions, if that's what it 
>> means.
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>>> From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd at bzed.de>
>>> Date: October 26, 2007 9:39:53 AM PDT
>>>
>>> Hi Greg,
>>>
>>> sorry for the late reply, just didn't find the time before.
>>>
>>>> Having compatibility links as an option during installation is fine 
>>>> with
>>>> me if it defaults to "yes" or provides a clear explanation of the
>>>> pitfalls of not installing the links.  I guess we only need a link for
>>>> genbox at this point, though I would like to keep "rview" in there as
>>>> well for consistency with extant documentation.
>>>
>>> They can't default to yes as they'd be added in automatic testing
>>> environments (where all debconf questions are answered with the default
>>> value) and installing the conflicting package could fail then.
>>>
>>> I'm all open to other suggestions, we should find the final solution
>>> within the next months, though.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Bernd
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Bernd Zeimetz
>>> <bernd at bzed.de>                         <http://bzed.de/>
>>
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