Re: GNUstep tree update

[Dennis Leeuw]

Nicola Pero wrote:

> > Hi all,
> >
> > To follow up on the last posts about the GNUstep tree. Some of the
> > comments on this list and #GNUstep on irc.openprojects.net changed the
> > layout a bit. I decided to go step by step and had to most positive
> > comments on GNUstep.sh and GNUstep.csh being in the Tools directory.
> >
> > To accomplish that I had to rearrange some other stuff too. Before
> > proceding and creating a complete mess of the current installation I
> > reworked GNUmakefile.in and build gnustep-make so I could show you all
> > what is going to happen.
> >
> > Attached is the tree as it should be IMHO, when we want to place
> > GNUstep.sh and GNUstep.csh in the Tools directory and create
> > Developer/Makefiles to only contain makefiles.
> >
> > Comments and opinions are always welcome.
>
> I am personally against having a separate Developer directory.

I was first too. But on #GNUstep Deek convinced me that having a seperate
Developer tree comes in handy.
It prevents cluttering the filesystem of the "normal user". Or as he put
it:

<Steppy> Then why do you need separate directories for Admin and Developer.
The
file right are enough to decide access or not? Or am I missing something?
<Deek> Steppy: For utility. A user doesn't need to have development or
admin stu
ff cluttering up their Services, for example.
<Deek> If they want development and/or admin tools, they can set a
preference to
 get them.
<Deek> Just like "UNIX Expert"

Which seems quite reasonable to me.


> Technically, it would also add 4 new separate Tools/ and Applications/
> directories to search and to add to paths.

True, it does. But I think that outweighs (is that english?) the benefit of
having Developer stuff split from "normal user" stuff. I am not sure about
the Admin example above, but I feel that for Developer this is very handy.

a Distro maintainer can pack everything without Developer/ to have a User
install and pack Developer/ seperate into have his/her -dev package as we
see more and more with each distro.

Dennis