[osgeo4w-dev] packaging: .tmpl files are deprecated, right?

[Jeff McKenna]

Matt Wilkie wrote:
> Hi Folks, I'm waking up and old thread here, 26/04/2008...
> 
>> 2) Updated textreplace in msvcrt so that "-t abc.txt" will update abc.txt
>> in place if there is no abc.txt.tmpl file.   As Jeff has pointed out it
>> is preferrable to update stuff in place rather than have template files
>> so that uninstall will cleanup better. 
> I believe this means using .tmpl files should be deprecated as a 
> standard packaging method? I'm happy to make the changes to 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/PackagingInstructions if this is the 
> case.

Hi Matt,

I believe using .tmpl files (TextReplace Example #2) should be 
deprecated, and this should be documented.  Since textreplace can update 
the actual file, there's no need for these tmpl file, in my opinion.

-jeff(m)