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Re: libgnustep-base split proposal
From: |
Helge Hess |
Subject: |
Re: libgnustep-base split proposal |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:04:50 +0100 |
On 22. Feb 2006, at 19:29 Uhr, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
I boggled when I read that ... then realised that my initial
incomprehension was due to 20+ years experience programming on unix
style systems ... it simply didn't occur to me that copying the
library from one directory to another would be an issue for a
developer (for a user, yes). GNUstep is by no means alone in
putting its libraries in its own directories ... many packages
(ssh, postgres etc) use their own subdirectories.
Well, there is a reason that FHS was invented and that Debian is so
popular. The OGo installation targets system adminstrators and they
expect to find stuff in known/consistent places (they even wonder why
there is nothing in /var/php/ ;-).
And really, there is no good reason not to do it the standard way (on
the Linux platform).
I really don't know how to address that as a problem. Of course we
could provide a script to copy the library ... but then people
would need to know about the script.
Honestly I can't see a reason why libgstep-base and associated
resources should be installed into any other place but /usr/local or /
usr as per FHS. This should be the default location. Even if
GNUstep.sh is being used (which would be searched first when its
sourced).
The GNUstep hierarchy is IMO appropriate for
a) ultra power users wanting the full flexibility of self contained
environments (we do this occasionally, but less all the time due to
the invention of Linux VServer)
b) user-level desktop applications (I agree that a GNUmail.app should
live
in some /Applications directory, not in ~/bin ...)
Greets,
Helge
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- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, (continued)
- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, Riccardo, 2006/02/19
- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2006/02/22
- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, Jeremy Cowgar, 2006/02/23
- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2006/02/22
- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, Jeremy Cowgar, 2006/02/23
- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2006/02/23
- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, Yen-Ju Chen, 2006/02/24
- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal,
Helge Hess <=
- Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, Alex Perez, 2006/02/25
Re: libgnustep-base split proposal, Gregory John Casamento, 2006/02/23