Re: I wrote a gtk2-perl application, need advice

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- Mitchell Laks <mlaks post harvard edu> wrote:


> 1) A professional software engineer would know where to put things in a /usr/share and /usr/bin.
> I have all the code 
> and data  in my current directory and subdirectories. What is the next step?
>
> Perhaps I want to write my data to /usr/share/Cybergaon/MTR/*, and the application to
> /usr/bin/cybergaon.pl
> or something like /usr/share/local/bin/cybergaon.pl. Suggestions?


Well, my approach is to organize a tree and to put the script and modules/libraries the
script depends on into the the tree.

Also, the script should calculate location of libraries/modules it depends on (the ones
you wrote) according to $0.

In such a manner you get "position-independent" (in terms of filesystem) tool,
so you and/or end users can put the script tree wherever they like.

In the Windows world it is called nowadays "portable applications".

I'm writing all my scripts this way.

Regards,
  Sergei.


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