[Vimcdoc-translate] Re: about the new vimcdoc.sh in 0.7.0

[Alecs K. <al...@pe...>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:55:11AM +0100, Simon Liang wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:13:00 +0800, "Alecs King" <al...@pe...>
> said:
> > 1) Why hard-coded the $VIM_PATH instead of checking $VIMRUNTIME like our
> > old script did?
> 
> I'd thought that most of the user uses the vim that came with the
> Linux/BSD
> distro. And they should reside in /usr/. If not, adding
> '/usr/share/vim/vimfiles' isn't
> to rtp that hard either.

E.g. Here on FreeBSD (5.2-current), vim is installed to
/usr/local/share/vim/vim63/ with no 'vimfiles' sub-directory. I think
it's better to check $VIMRUNTIME to support various vim installations.

> > 2) Not root, you cant install files to $VIMCDOC_PATH.

Sorry. I overlooked the $install_dist_files part.

> > PS, as for $VIMCDOC_PATH, i prefer to use /usr/local/... instead of
> > /usr/share.
> hmm. The only reason I choosed /usr is because it has a better chance of
> 'work
> out of box'. What would you prefer? Auto-detection?
> 

I dunno if it's a (loose?) convention. But usually all those manually
installed software goes to /usr/local/share. (That is, default prefix is
/usr/local). Not a big deal, anyway.


3) The '-D' option of 'install' is a GNU/Linux style option, whereas
BSD install does not have this option but '-d' instead.
(Back to use mkdir & cp?)


Regards,