On Fri Jun 21, 2019 at 12:21:20AM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> Rafael Sadowski writes:
> > On Wed Jun 19, 2019 at 02:01:33AM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > EPUBCheck is a tool to validate the conformance of EPUB publications 
> > > agains
> > t
> > > the EPUB specifications. EPUBCheck can be run as a standalone command-line
> > > tool or used as a Java library.
> > > 
> > > EPUBCheck is open source software, maintained by the DAISY Consortium on
> > > behalf of the W3C.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > You can download some epubs to try validating from 
> > > https://standardebooks.o
> > rg/.
> > > 
> > > ok?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Anthony J. Bentley
> >
> > Why are you installed all jar file under ${PREFIX}/share/epubcheck
> 
> It's arbitrary. I considered ${PREFIX}/lib also, but ${PREFIX}/share is
> where I usually put large port-specific data like this. (See also: lots
> of game ports that put executables and data under ${PREFIX}/share and
> only put a wrapper script in ${PREFIX}/bin.)
> 
> > and not ${PREFIX}/epubcheck?
> 
> Seems a bit weird to put something like this directly under /usr/local,
> doesn't it?

We do it so for intellij, jdk-11, chrome, pycharm... but I see your
point.

>
> I tend to reserve it for paths that users will type a lot.
> Since no user will ever refer to epubcheck's directories directly, a
> deeper hierarchy is no problem...
> 

I can live with it, and it works for me, too. OK rsadowski@

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