Right, now I'm subscribed to this list again, so I'll keep up with the more easily. Thanks for such a good response, all!
> Please tell us what your library is & what the examples are - it might > make it easier. I'm packaging OpenSceneGraph (www.openscenegraph.org, though that is missing the documentation included with the source, I think. I have thrown "introduction.html" and "demos.html" from the source on http://people.debian.org/~hvdm/ - sorry about not bothering with the images. The examples include a "scene graph viewer", probably the most "useful" app, the rest appear to be more demo-only. > I guess the best answer is to look at what other libraries do. > One of note which places files in /usr/bin is the gtk-demo example > program. Most others (which I know of) seem to only have sources for the > examples - are the binaries really required? Crystalspace demos are installed in /usr/games, despite not being playable... I will probably be packaging 2.2 megs of compressed data files, and providing these, but not binaries that use them, seems a little, weird. The data consists of images, scene graphs and fonts, it seems - I guess I'll have to check up on the licenses though, I see, amongst others: OpenSceneGraph-Data/fonts/arial.ttf OpenSceneGraph-Data/fonts/fudd.ttf OpenSceneGraph-Data/fonts/times.ttf OpenSceneGraph-Data/fonts/dirtydoz.ttf and I recall there being a general lack of good quality free fonts, so I'm a little suspicious... I guess I should investigate what data I can leave out, if all that is really important is to get the demos to run. Possibly substitute fonts already in Debian. I also wondered if I should be calling the packages libopenscenegraph-*, or just openscenegraph-* - even if going with the former, I wonder about the demo's package, openscenegraph-demos vs libopenscenegraph-demos. And openscenegraph-data? Another interesting point: I may have to write wrappers for these examples to set up e.g. OSG_FILE_PATH (or something like that), so even if I do go for /usr/bin, I guess these wrappers belong there, while the actual binaries should be elsewhere ... in /usr/lib/OpenSceneGraph/bin ? (With the demo code in /usr/lib/OpenSceneGraph/src/, with symlink from share/doc, or rather directly in src?) If I go with source-only demos, then it probably works best in the -doc package? I will hopefully have some half-decent packages up this weekend, then I'll post again for comments if there is interest - I will then also mention it on the OSG list and hear what the OSG-regulars have to say about the demos. The libraries do not have "sonames" at the moment. BTW, I heard somewhere that GIF is becoming "Free" this month? For the time being I'm building without GIF support. I guess I should mention this somewhere, rather README.Debian than the package's description? Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- The earth's surface is accelerating outward at 9.8 meters per sec^2 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698
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