In Installation, we described how to install roswell from the source. However, it assumed the global installation.
Local installation is available by specifying --prefix option to ./configure. The default location is /usr/local. Actual binary is installed in $PREFIX/bin and supporting files are installed into $PREFIX/etc/roswell/.
This is useful when using roswell as a backend of CI services (e.g. travis): When you specify a directory accessible without root permission, then you can switch to the new container-based infrastructure for faster startup (of the tests). We already provide such a script for Travis, CircleCI and Coverall using this feature.
Another usage is for bundling roswell in a standalone project which does not alter the user environment at all.
Example:
$ git clone -b release https://github.com/roswell/roswell.git
$ cd roswell
$ sh bootstrap
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local/
$ make && make install ### in this case, no sudo is required!
$ ~/.local/bin/ros