%% Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JMarc> What I mean is that I am ready to provide a more "standard" way
JMarc> of installing several LyX versions concurrently, but does this
JMarc> standard way exist?
Tom> Most people just make a new --prefix.
jl> Well, at my site we have gcc-2.8.1 _and_ gcc-2.95.2, emacs-19.34 _and_
jl> emacs-20.2, etc.
Yes, but if you ever try to install them you'll see they install as
"emacs" and "gcc" by default.
jl> I thought this was a kind of feature of some GNU tools. Is this
jl> way of fdoing things deprecated?
Not sure what you mean here. Allowing multiple versions to be installed
is A Good Thing and is certainly not deprecated. But AFAIK no GNU tools
install themselves with version number postfix or similar by default (or
at least if they do they always _also_ install as the standard file).
I'm with Jean-Marc, though, I wish that automake would add a new
standard install target that installed binaries as "name-VERSION"
instead of just "name" (for example). Of course, this may not always
work for all packages, but...
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