Why "gosh" installs to ARCH directory? about gauche HOT 3 CLOSED

Since 0.9.6, gosh binary links to libgauche under ARCH_INSTALL_DIR. This allows users to install multiple versions of Gauche. ${bindir}/gosh is overwritten by the last installed Gauche, but using -v VERSION the user starts different version of Gauche.

Closing.

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The idea was to eventually allow keeping multiple versions of Gauche
installation and provide
some simple mechanism to switch around it. But it stopped half-baked; the
whole business of
rpath/LD_LIBRARY_PATH/LD_RUN_PATH thingy was messy to maintain.

These days it seems that installing to a global location is getting out of
fashion. People seem
to like just grab the binary zip to exract to anywhere, or fetch an
installer that automagically
pulls latest binary to God-knows-where. Storage is abundant and we no
longer mind having
multiple copies of installations for each user, or even each project. I
feel we don't even
need to stick to the old-school bindir/libexecdir stuff.

So, I'd like to hear users' idea on how the future Gauche installation,
extension package
installation, deployment & distribution of Gauche applications etc. are
going to be.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:13 PM, qykth-git [email protected]
wrote:

Why gosh and libgauche-0.9.so are installs ARCH_INSTALL_DIR ?
Is there are any reasons to install both of standard directory and ARCH
directory?

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It's interesting idea.
I think those multiple-version Gauche has similar structure to "portable application".

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