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Re: Support for architecture-independent binaries


From: Reuben Thomas
Subject: Re: Support for architecture-independent binaries
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:40:25 +0000

On 9 March 2011 19:06, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> What I meant to say was: there may be use cases for having a directory
> for architecture-independent executable files (usually scripts), but the
> number of files that would benefit from this is not very large, and the
> files themselves are typically not very large either.

Unless one packages all the code in an application into one file, as
is usually done with programs written in shell (not that I want to
encourage the use of shell for writing sizeable programs!), and often
with Perl. Python and Ruby applications often seem essentially to
install the source tree under ${prefix}/share, and have a small
launcher script in ${exec_prefix}/bin, and maybe that's not a bad way
for me  to go with Lua?

> The organizational advantage might not be large enough to warrant
> changing the GNU Coding Standards for this.  But Karl or RMS are
> the ones you need to convince here, not me.

Sure, but you've kindly volunteered to have the discussion; they're
presumably lurking up to the point where it becomes worth intervening
or killfiling.

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