From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19136 invoked from network); 16 Mar 1999 14:25:47 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 Mar 1999 14:25:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 15088 invoked by alias); 16 Mar 1999 14:25:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5825 Received: (qmail 15074 invoked from network); 16 Mar 1999 14:25:16 -0000 Sender: B.Stephens@isode.com To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Out of the box user experience References: <9903161337.AA61220@ibmth.df.unipi.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Bruce Stephens Date: 16 Mar 1999 14:24:43 +0000 In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:37:33 +0100" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Peter Stephenson writes: > Bruce Stephens wrote: > > How about sticking them in $prefix/lib/zsh/ (in suitable > > subdirectories---maybe version-specific?), and adding a shell-set > > parameter, ZSH_SCRIPTS or ZSH_LIB or something, so it's easy to > > find them. > > This will probably happen (if someone does it). The last thing I > though of was two configure options, --completion-lib for where to > install it and --completion-install=core,base,builtins,all (with a > cumulative effect) to specify what to install. What about Functions, Misc (and StartupFiles, for that matter)? Specifically, what does RedHat do when they build a binary package of zsh? (I really ought to look, I suppose!) I'm guessing they regard the example functions and things as documentation, and install it into /usr/doc/zsh-$ZSH_VERSION. Why not install the whole lot in subdirectories of $prefix/lib/zsh/3.1.6? Actually, I suppose that looks ugly, since the modules get stuck there. Maybe the modules could go into a subdirectory too? I suppose the scripts really ought to go into $prefix/share/zsh/$ZSH_VERSION/*. That would be a better division. So the modules stay where they are, and the scripts (including completion) get stuck in share somewhere. I'd prefer to have them installed automatically. I don't see the need for optional installation of these scripts. > The zshcompwid manual is probably not finished yet, since there are > a few bits still in the pipeline. I was intending to tidy it up > when it was. OK. > Then there may be a separate manual for the standard functions. Any > existing non-completion-widget documentation is probably unlikely to > change much unless changed forcibly. OK. As far as I remember, the last time I read the manual I didn't notice anything wrong (other than features I hadn't noticed before, and the general overwhelming complexity of it). So I probably shouldn't spend time on checking the documentation. If I feel the urge, I may have a go at writing some new documentation instead.