[PATCH] Consolidated patch to install contrib/ on posix platforms

Alexis S. L. Carvalho alexis at cecm.usp.br
Sun Sep 9 14:22:14 CDT 2007


Thus spake Jonathan S. Shapiro:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com>
> # Date 1188579402 14400
> # Node ID 9085dc8f7de9c2642e1ee690bfc1780b6b2f1a42
> # Parent  694eb9ccb54d9f9c2e63a65368df0fdc9843f98f
> Consolidated patch to install contrib/ on posix platforms.

I have 2 issues with this patch:

- it hard codes /usr/share/mercurial, making it impossible to install it
  in another prefix, $HOME in particular (I think - I haven't actually
  tested it);

- I'm really not sure we want to install everything in contrib/ like
  this.
  
  I think you can make a good argument that hgk should be installed
  somewhere, since hgext/hgk.py depends on it, but I'd rather let
  distributions decide where to install the other files, _if_ they want
  to install them.

  For example, the Debian package installs most files in
  /usr/share/doc/mercurial/examples, which is a pretty standard place
  for this kind of thing in Debian.  It also puts the bash completion
  file in /etc/bash_completion.d/ and mercurial.el in some emacs
  directory, so that both are automatically used.

  OTOH it doesn't bother with contrib/win32 and contrib/macosx, which
  are not interesting to Debian users.

Alexis


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