Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Preferences Update - library choice: expat

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

I await other people's thoughts and comments on where the recommended 
place to setup libraries for usage should be. In the meantime, I will 
probably begin work on CPreferencesWriter_Plist which wouldn't need the 
library.

-Jeremy Parsons

On Dec 16, 2003, at 1:16 PM, Br'fin wrote:

>
> On Dec 16, 2003, at 9:33 AM, Timothy Collett wrote:
>
>> On Dec 16, 2003, at 7:15 AM, Br'fin wrote:
>>
>>> *mutter mutter grumble*
>>>
>>> It would figure that autoconf's tools don't like Application 
>>> Support. Even when you do something like:
>>> ./configure --prefix='"/Library/Application 
>>> Support/Expat/expat-1.95.7/"'
>>>
>>> On the other hand, I do agree that Application Support itself was 
>>> never quite right. /Library/Libraries seems a little redundant. So 
>>> how about /Library/Development?
>>>
>>
>> #1: did you try ./configure --prefix=/Library/Application\ 
>> Support/Expat/expat-1.95.7/ ?
>
> That only gets the prefix past the initial command line. It then gets 
> dropped into scripts relatively unescaped and certainly unquoted. So 
> you get past the initial step to have the setup still falter and 
> miswork.
>
>> #2: Since expat's so small, why not just make it part of AM?  That 
>> means 1 less thing that people have to have installed to run it, 
>> which makes people more likely to want to install it--less hassle for 
>> those who don't understand libraries and Unixland and such.
>
> My plan with expat is to link it in statically. Thus there's nothing 
> for the end-user to install. I whole heartedly agree that the user 
> shouldn't have to look for other libraris to install first before they 
> run the application
>
> All this business with /Library/Development or /Library/Application 
> Support is specifically for the AM developers. Specifically, I'm 
> applying what I did to standardize the location of Lua and Speex 
> libraries under OSX for AlephOne to what I'm doing here for 
> AlephModular. I'm also trying to get consensus, and smooth out 
> wrinkles.
>
> -Jeremy Parsons
>
>
>
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