[Tinyos Core WG] support/bin

[David Gay]

On 5/18/07, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Net2 met today, and the folks from JHU are ready to check in Deluge
> for 2.0. There's one blocking item, which is the decision of whether
> to put  the command-line tools in tools/ or support/. Since they are
> command line tools, they benefit from being separate from support/sdk/
> python/blah/blah. The conclusion was that we need a support/bin,
> which has end-user scripts. tos-mviz would probably migrate there.
>
> Are there any objections to creating a support/bin?

Didn't get round to answering in the "private" thread. My issue here
is that having a support/bin, installed somehow when you install the
rpm, gets in the way of either:
- a relocatable rpm as we have now
- or, actually being an rpm-kind of thing which tracks groups of
installed files (to make it relocatable and have tools in support/bin,
you end up needing to do some magic in post-install scripts to put the
files somewhere, or to mess with the user's path which is even worse)

What's the real problem in having them in tools? Version dependency
issues can be addressed by placing appropriate requirements on
tinyos-tools in the tinyos rpm.

I really do think life is easier with a "real rpm" (tinyos-tools) and
a "convenient tarball-like thing" (tinyos)

David