From: Erik Veenstra <pan@...>
Date: 2005-07-12T15:20:49+09:00
Subject: Re: installation of files

> Normally all files are installed in e.g.
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/site_ruby/programname/.

Not all files are installed in site_ruby. Only common library
files should be placed here. Files which belong to one
application should be placed in one directory tree.

> Shouldn�t program files be installed in /usr/bin? Or maybe
> installing the files to: /usr/local/programname?

That's good if you want your application to only run on Linux.
It's not good if you want your application to be more platform
agnostic.

If you want stick to FHS, you could append a private library
path to LOAD_PATH:

 dirname, basename = File::split(File::expand_path(__FILE__))
 $: << File.expand_path("../lib/#{basename}/libs", dirname)

> But this isn�t what I am looking for.

What is it what you're looking for?... ;)

> What is the official target for such files, which are not
> libraries and shouldn�t be accessed by any other program?

I've written down my ideas about building and distributing Ruby
applications [1], as well as implemented some of the ideas [2,
3] By the way, it's not official...

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

 [1] http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/distributingrubyapplications/index.html
 [2] http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/index.html
 [3] http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html