On Tuesday 22 November 2005 23:12, jpff@codemist.co.uk wrote:

> I wrote a FLTK installer today that should work on Linux or OSX.  It
> is in installer/linux/new_install.cxx
>   Not checked yet, but it incorporates what I think should be in an
> installer.  Let discussion start....

A number of questions:

Does it also allow for clean uninstallation (one of the common
problems reported is having old files left over from previous
versions) ?

Are the Csound API and interface libraries installed, preferably
to a standard location like /usr/local/lib ? I mean, at least the
following files (the names may change, but the idea is to have
dynamic libraries with symbolic links correctly set up):

  lib_csnd.so
  libcsound64.a
  libcsound64.so -> libcsound64.so.5.1
  libcsound64.so.5.1
  libcsound.a
  libcsound.so -> libcsound.so.5.1
  libcsound.so.5.1

Are the relevant header files (see SConstruct at around line 40)
installed to a standard location (I suggest /usr/local/include/csound,
but that may change) ?

Which ones of the following "optional" components are installed
(preferably to a location where the external software like PD will
automatically find its respective extension module):

  * csoundapi~ for PD
  * TclCsound
  * csnd module for Python
  * csnd module for Java

Are the utilities statically linked against the Csound library (I would
prefer dynamic linking or using simple shell scripts that call csound -U
to reduce package size, but this is a minor issue) ?

Is the installer expected to be built separately for major distributions,
or does it somehow deal with any possible incompatibilities (such as
versions of main system components, and directory structure) ?

How is the setting of various environment variables done ?

Should the HTML manual be included ?


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