Re: GNUstep directory layout

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 05:31 PM, David Ayers wrote:

> > > The last MAJOR change I'm debating is the Developer domain. It would 
> > > be
> > > nice to have all the developer stuff in one location. The drawback is
> > > that we are separating things, like Libraries and Headers, which 
> > > really
> > > should be together.
> >
> > If having a Developer domain means that there is yet another directory
> > where tools and apps can be installed - which means yet another 
> > directory
> > to add to the PATH and/or to the list of dirs to search for apps, then
> > that is another obvious drawback - PATH and similar variables are 
> > already
> > too long and big.
> I must admit that having a Developer domain seemed like a "nice to 
> have" but it really doesn't fit in to the concept. The domains 
> Network/System/Local/USER_ROOT all refer to entities who "vend" a 
> domain (Nerwork Admin/Distro/Sys Admin/User). Developers refers to a 
> certein user group that uses this domain (similar to bin/sbin-concept). 
> What makes them so special for them to have thier own domain? Access 
> rights to certain apps have to be handled in a consistent way for all 
> kinds of user groups. Picking Developer seems rather arbitrary. And I 
> don't think it's worth sacrificing execution/build time for it. If I 
> want a "Developer" workstation, I can install the packeges in the Local 
> Domain (unless I have a dedicated Developer-Distro which might have 
> them in System). (Maybe we could compromise on inistalling 
> ProjectCenter, Gorm, Palettes and the Makefiles in Local by default, if 
> that isn't already the case.) (Hmm. but maybe I'm going to far.)
>
> Just some thoughts, I'm not all to much into this.

For what it's worth, my vote is against a separate developer domain too.