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#1 2010-09-20 19:32:11
- SoleSoul
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Where can I find programming and packaging guidelines?
I work on an open source project of mine. It's not ready yet.
Since I never created a real-world application before, I need some guidelines about general system integration.
Where should I put the config files?
What should be their syntax?
What should be included in the tarball I will create and what should be the folder structure?
Where should I put the files of the application once it's finished? There are many possible locations in the filesystem.
You see, I need some guidance, please.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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#2 2010-09-20 19:36:04
- karol
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Re: Where can I find programming and packaging guidelines?
How about telling us eg. what language are you writing it in? Perl and C are two different worlds, different guidelines.
Google for FHS.
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#3 2010-09-20 19:39:36
- SoleSoul
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Re: Where can I find programming and packaging guidelines?
Whoops
I use QTCreator to program a GTK application using C++, gtkmm and xmlrpc-c.
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#4 2010-09-20 19:44:57
- karol
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Re: Where can I find programming and packaging guidelines?
You can have a look at some established projects that are using similar tools - where do they put the application files etc.
There are things like XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME etc. http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedi … atest.html
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