Re: [Mlt-devel] What to do with swig bindings?

[Dan D. <da...@de...>]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi<pma...@de...> wrote:
> Dan Dennedy schrieb:
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Patrick Matthäi<pma...@de...> wrote:
>>> Dan Dennedy schrieb:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Patrick Matthäi<pma...@de...> wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am realy clueless, I try to implement the swig bindings in the
>>>> [...]
>>>>> Yeah just 'perl php python', the other bindings FTBFS.
>>>>> What to do with them, where should they be installed?
>>>>>
>>>>> It is not documented and I am a swig noob :)
>>>> It is not really a swig issue because swig provides no help for an
>>>> install make target. Each language has its own version-specific
>>>> directory for its extensions, and I assume some distros do it
>>>> differently than others. Can you look at some debian package rules for
>>>> some other bindings packages?
>>>>
>>> http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/python-subversion/filelist
>>>
>>> This is from subversion.
>>>
>>> I could start and build a simmilar architecture of files.
>>> But I think it would be better if you made one, so that not every
>>> distributor put the files in another location and name?
>>
>> Main dev workstation runs Arch Linux, and it does not have a
>> /usr/lib/pyshared, etc. For Python it has
>> /usr/lib/python<X.Y>/site-packages/. For PHP, it uses
>> /usr/lib/php/<X>/. For Perl, /usr/lib/perl<X>/site_perl/current/.
>> Also, I do not think my swig binding creates as many files as the
>> python-subversion example, for whatever reason. All that mlt's python
>> builds is _mlt.so and mlt.py. If I create a structure, surely, it will
>> not be accepted by the distro packagers, and even if they did, it
>
> Why not if you choose a structure which is ACKed by the FSH?  :)
> I just do not like it if I choose e.g. now the same structure as some
> swig packaging examples and other distros like suse, gentoo, etc are
> doing it in a very different way. You should give *good* rules where the
> files should be placed.

I am sorry, but I do not understand because I do not know the LSB FSH
for language extensions and because I do not know the "good rules." I
believe there may some communication problem. Are you asking me to do
research to figure out the correct universal file system location (if
possible) for each language?

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