From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T02:46:07+09:00
Subject: Re: package glade files

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:45:57AM +0900, Roeland Moors wrote:
> I my own source I put the glade files in a seperate dir.
> If I put them in the lib dir, I would have to type more before I
> can use tab completion to open the file.
> I know, I'm very lazy :-)
> 
> It would make sence to put it in share/ if it was used by
> multiple programs, but that probably will not happen.

It's not about sharing between programs, but rather about filesystem
standards and platform-independent files...

> > 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.
> > 
> 
> And for RPA?

rpa-base installs normally into $prefix so you can access it the normal
way, i.e. through

require 'rbconfig'
Config::CONFIG["datadir"]

You can also get the dir. in the RPA namespace but it's better to use
rbconfig because that way your app. is not tied to RPA/rpa-base.

> * Creating a dh_ruby* helper which rake can use?

This would take a bit longer since it has to follow the 'official'
Debian path; but I've seen references to it in #debian-ruby...

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