[vtk-developers] copy Wrapping/Python, Wrapping/Tcl to VTKbin?

[David Gobbi]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:

> >>>>> "DG" == David Gobbi <dgobbi at imaging.robarts.ca> writes:
>
>     DG> Saying that 'make' should never install anything anywhere goes
>     DG> against the way that 'make' is used by many projects.  I've
>     DG> seen plenty of projects where plain 'make' copies
>     DG> documentation files or header files from scattered directories
>     DG> into a central 'documentation' or 'include' directory within
>     DG> the source tree, and then 'make install' copies them from
>     DG> there into the proper install directories.  The way I see it,
>     DG> make should be able to do anything we want as long as it
>     DG> limits itself to the 'build' (i.e. VTKbin) directory.
>
> Thats true.  If the location where files are installed are
> standardized there should be no major problems with doing this.
> Should the 'installers' use these files instead of the source files
> then?

Yes, I think that is best.

 - David