Installation location

[FredericGuilbault]

Default installation location for openplotter is ~/.config But it should be ~/.local/share/

Only configuration files be in .config

On a larger view. openplotter should not be in any ~/ folder. but that's a bigger job.

[sailoog]

I do not like that place either. What about /usr/share? I do not think is such big job and v2.x.x is the right time to do it.

[FredericGuilbault]

/usr/share is for files from packages that are not ARM specific. (Like doc, icons, and text ...)

I would check what pip have to offer in term of managed installation process (witch i have no idea, i just know that what python people do ;p ).

Or just put the openplotter folder in /opt/ as it's the place for standalone applications that don't integrate with the linux structure. (that's where I plan to put openplotter on my OS)

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If you choose to integrate in the Linux architecture, you kinda have to spread your app across the filesystem. Binaries in bin, libraries lib or include, configs in etc logs in /var/log, static files in /share, pid and socket files in /var/run ....

But in your case most will be in /usr/local/*.

• /usr cuz user level (runlevel3) stuff
• local cuz it's not meant to be updated by any external process like apt or puppet.

/usr/local/bin /usr/local/share /usr/local/lib /var/log /etc