On 10/02/20 10:09 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>> The default prefix path should be changed to something like
>> $HOME/.squeak or $HOME/.config/squeak so that default installations
>> will not require root permission.
> +1000. But this is not really the prefix path, but the default 
> installation.  Can’t we easily compute the correct prefix path in
> the squeak launch script based on its path (i.e. from a combination
> of $0 and $PATH ?).

The prefix path gets recorded in the build directory Makefile, so the 
install step in http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6177

   $ make install

will fail because it requires a sudo. My proposal is to change the 
default so that install will proceed smoothly for non-root users. 
Package maintainers for distros can override this prefix in the 
configure step.

Once installed, the squeakvm does compute the correct path for plugins 
etc. from its installed location.

Regards .. Subbu