Written some poky little script which you want to package and distribute, but you can't be bothered to write a makefile or a configure script for it? Help is at hand with guess_install. This is a small Perl script which looks at the files in the current directory, and automatically installs them in the correct locations (bin/, share/man/, and share/doc/). You can distribute it as a file called 'install' together with your script and a README or two, and tell the user to type './install --prefix=whatever'.
The first package to make use of this is... guess_install itself! Talk about tools to make tools.
The latest version is 1.0.3. This has no code changes since the last release but adds a comment to guess_install saying where to get the latest version (since the intention is that this program be distributed far and wide with random other packages).
Please contact me, Ed Avis <ed@membled.com> with any bug reports or suggestions for new 'artificial intelligence' to add to guess_install.
All the files are in the public domain. This means there are no copyright restrictions, you may do what you wish with them. Of course, giving credit would be appreciated (but not required).
They are offered as-is with no warranty whatsoever.