From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T00:37:23+09:00
Subject: Re: package glade files

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:01:44PM +0900, Roeland Moors wrote:
> I'm creating a project with ruby/gtk.
> This program uses glade files for the interface.
> What would be the correct place to store these files?
> Should I place these files in lib/ ?

They should probably go into $prefix/share/yourapp/; I've seen similar
things under data/ in the sources.
Now, I feel that most of ruby's lib/ should be under share/ruby actually:
if you feel differently about this, lib/ would be a good option for your
glade files too.

> Here is the directory structure RPA suggest:
> http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?GoodPractices
> But they don't mention glade files.
> 
> I'm asking this because I'm creating packages gem/deb.
> Are there gems with glade files as an example?

RubyGems doesn't care in general about the layout of your sources,
since they will be packed as-is (you can exclude files, of course),
or more precisely as Rake leaves them after the 'pre-processing' phase.

The only problem is finding the files at runtime. Before RubyGems, it
was safe to access them via 
 require 'rbconfig'
 File.join(::Config::CONFIG["datadir"], "myappname", subdir)

If you're using RubyGems, you have to require 'rubygems', determine the
'gemdir' and the subdirectory you need.

At any rate, please do not use tricks involving File.dirname(__FILE__);
they make it so much more difficult to repackage for systems with some
policy...

> Wouldn't it be nice if rake could make all these packages in one
> step :-)

Debian is missing a dh_ruby* family of helpers atm., so Rake would
have to generate explicitly all the required code in debian/rules.
As for debian/control, since the metadata differs from RubyGems' you'd
end up having to specify quite a lot in the Rakefile -- not to mention
the other files under debian/. At some point you have to see which of
the following options is better:
* having Rake generate debian/* and run dpkg-buildpackage
* generating debian/* manually (maybe automating debian/Changelog) and
  having Rake just call dpkg-buildpackage

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