[WWdevel] how to set up directories

[Arnold P. <ap...@ma...>]

Hi,

I'm writing up specific instructions for installing WW on SUSE 10.1 
aimed at non unix experts. There will be versions for other OS's.  in 
doing this I'm thinking about our default directory set up. It is

/opt/webwork2
/opt/pg

For courses
/opt/webwork2/courses

and I can't find (but haven't looked much) default locations for 
libraries.  If we followed the pattern it would be I guess
/opt/asu_problib
etc
Also if wwmoodle remains a high level directory, I assume we would have
/opt/wwmoodle

I think it would be better to put everything under a webwork 
directory and also to move courses up from under webwork2.  People 
might want to update WW by moving webwork2 to webwork2.bak and 
installing a complete new system but they will most likely want to 
keep their courses directory. Everything in the courses directory is 
local except for the model course and even that get's 
localized.  When installing we could tell people to move the model 
course and associated classlists (they are in fact .dist versions 
without the .dist extension). So here is what I think would be better:

/opt/webwork/webwork2
/opt/webwork/pg
/opt/webwork/courses

for libraries we could do either
/opt/webwork/asu_problib
/opt/webwork/rochester_problib
/opt/webwork/union_problib
etc or
/opt/webwork/libraries/asu_problib

Any thoughts on this?

Arnie



Prof. Arnold K. Pizer
Dept. of Mathematics
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
(585) 275-7767