Re: [MiNT] Re[2]: GEM boost

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.nu>]

> Case in point - stuff I'm doing.. Gim and Sum.  Both absolutely require
> mint or else they will not work, so no harm in packaging them in RPM.
> But since Gim is a more standard GEM program I distribute that in a zip
> anyway.  Should I be presumptuous enough to assume that xxxxx person
> wants gim installed in /usr/bin?  I dunno.

There is /usr/GEM, analog to /usr/X11 :o) And for programs that want to have 
their own directory for everything, /opt/appname would be in order. Well you 
could always distribute both.. so an RPM for MiNT users who can then type the 
"user unfriendly" install command and be done with it, and a ZIP with a long 
textfile explaining you where to copy everything and what config files to 
change for non-MiNT or non-RPM users. And then people can start to 
re-evaluate for themselves whether MiNT is really more complicated than TOS 
or MagiC. ;o)

Maurits.