[Linux] Default install to /usr/local/bin about cabbage

[rorywalsh]

These are all good points. I typically run Cabbage out of the build directory myself so never have to worry about this. Do you feel like making a PR for a better install script? I'd be happy to merge. How about the other resources (examples/documentation.etc), are they going into an acceptable location?

[dromer]

No everything is currently going to reserved locations where they should be going to /usr/local as well.

Simply changing the install script won't work, because the applications have their internal locations hardcoded to /usr/bin path.
For instance if one wants to export a project, it will fail because it is expecting /usr/bin/CabbagePlugin. Maybe instead of the full path just the application-name should be used. Because these should already be in the $PATH of the user.

[rorywalsh]

So I can just use the location of the current binary to set the path for the plugins, like I do on other platforms. So basically scrap the if !def...

        String pluginFilename, fileExtension;
        File thisFile = File::getSpecialLocation (File::currentApplicationFile);
#if !defined(WIN32) && !defined(MACOSX)
        String currentApplicationDirectory = "/usr/bin";
#else
        String currentApplicationDirectory = thisFile.getParentDirectory().getFullPathName();
#endif

After that we only need to ensure that the plugins are in the same folder as the main application binary.

[dromer]

You shouldn't even need to think about the location of the binaries. If the user installed Cabbage, then all the Cabbage binaries are in the $PATH already.

You should only have to call the binary name. The full path is irrelevant.

(but maybe someone else needs to chime in on this :) )

[rorywalsh]

It should be simple enough to test. I won't be at my Linux machine for a few days, but if you wish to go ahead and test this I'd be more than happy to hear how it goes 👍

[dromer]

I don't have time today to try and build Cabbage, but thanks for looking in to this :)