diff PACKAGING @ 461:a53225b44ea5

further refinement of build system: follow general free sw standards as much as possible
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Sat, 11 May 2024 07:09:59 +0000
parents 4c458145e793
children 6724fbb01a09
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--- a/PACKAGING	Fri May 10 23:04:44 2024 +0000
+++ b/PACKAGING	Sat May 11 07:09:59 2024 +0000
@@ -19,10 +19,12 @@
 * Themyscira software components are intended to run on server machines where
   they will often need to interwork closely with Osmocom and other network
   software.  Unlike FC, ThemWi software does _not_ require a fixed install
-  location; the Mother's home environment uses /opt/themwi by default (although
-  even here we sometimes have to work with multiple installs like /opt/themwi2
-  etc), but the intent is that users of ThemWi software should have just as much
-  freedom to choose their install location as users of Osmocom CNI.
+  location; at Themyscira HQ we use various custom directories under /opt for
+  both Osmocom CNI and our own ThemWi components, but no one else is being
+  asked to do what we do!  We now follow the general free sw community standard
+  whereby the default install location is /usr/local, but you are always free
+  to change it to wherever you like with the standard --prefix option to
+  configure.
 
 Toward this end, all ThemWi software beginning with the present package will
 have a ./configure script (hand-coded, no Autotools) that accepts the standard