On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:35:07PM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
David Cournapeau has sent me a first draft of a document, you might want to look at.
http://wiki.python.org/moin/distutils-autoconf
Might be a good basis for a common understanding
Looks useful! Not sure where to comment on this so doing it here... Under Categories I think "configuration files (sysconfdir)" and "statedir" are missing. I also don't know in how far it's useful to provide a separate "logdir", autotools doesn't seem to do this it rather let's you construct one using statedir. As for "html doc" and "pdf doc" I'm not sure why they are separate, surely they can both just be constructed from "docdir"? The trick is to make it fine grained enough so packagers will be able to customise it enough and leave it coarse enough so that developers will want to classify their files properly. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org