[GRASS-dev] GUI code dest dir

[Volker Fröhlich]

Am 2014-04-17 21:30, schrieb Vaclav Petras:
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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com
> <mailto:landa.martin at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi all,
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>     currently wxGUI code is placed by building system in `etc` directory.
>     I would say that more appropriate would be to put `gui` directory into
>     root, so at the same level as `bin` or `scripts`.
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>     Simirarly python libs are placed also in `etc` directory. They should
>     probably go to `lib\python` instead of `etc\python`.
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>     Any opinion?
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> I'm for the reform. Please, consider also other related issues.
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> The same layout for src and dist would be good for editing because then
> editors, python and other tools can just use the layout in src and it
> will work. This would mean that things which are now in `lib/python`
> should go to something which is named `grass` so that I can do
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> import grass.script
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> in the source code and it will work. Maybe separate directory for python
> libs in src root would enable this option?
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> Note that for C/C++ code we have a similar issue. In the source code,
> includes are in `include` but in distribution they are in
> `include/grass` so you have to do
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> #include grass/raster.h
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> but if you are editing source code in some clever editor and you want to
> jump from the .c file to the header, you cannot since there is no
> `grass` directory in src. This applies also for code completion etc. Of
> course, you can set the editor so that it finds the files in dist but
> you don't want to jump to dist, but to source code.
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> Vaclav
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>     Martin
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>     --
>     Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa

I warmly welcome this advance! So far Fedora manipulates various paths, 
including man page and lib location. Please see 
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1610

Greetings, Volker