On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 some message from Michael Polak appeared before me saying,
>I am very close to releasing alpha version of Arachne for Linux.
>Definitely SVGAlib version, and it is very likely that also GGI version.
>I am thinking about following directory structure:
>
>/usr/bin/arachne
/usr/sbin/arachne... as svgalib executables have to be suid root. arachne
should reside in /usr/sbin..
>/usr/lib/arachne/icons/
>/usr/lib/arachne/gui/
>/usr/lib/arachne/fonts/
>/usr/doc/arachne/html/
>/usr/man/arachne.1 ;-)
/usr/man/man1/arachne.1
>
>~/.arachne/config
>~/.arachne/cache
>
>I would like to share mail folder system of PINE, and maybe be able to
>import mail configuration from PINE too.
>
good idea..
>/usr/ will be replacable by /usr/local/ or /opt/arachne/, or even
>~/arachne/ if necessary. It is just recommended location.
let a configure script handle this
>I am not sure about /usr/lib/arachne/, to be true. This is what older
>applications use, but modern apps like KDE or GNOME apps seem to prefere
>/usr/share/appname location instead of /usr/lib/appname, leaving /usr/lib
>directory for real dynamic linking libraries.
hummzzz dont know what the linux filesystem standard supposes..
>So what do you suggest ? /usr/share/arachne/ (like GNOME or KDE apps) or
>/usr/lib/arachne (like /usr/lib/joe/joerc, for example ;-) ? This can't be
>configurable easily, because in case that ~/.arachne/config won't exist,
>Arachne will look for default one in ../lib/arachne/config relatively
>to executable filename (or maybe ../lib/arachne/arachne.cfg instead of
>config, I am not yet sure). Well, maybe there can be enviroment variable,
>like ARACHNEDIR, for those, who prefere different relative location of
>shared files than ../lib/arachne/ ?
>
>Linux Arachne definitely won't share current DOS style directory
>structure, it will allow (but not force) you to make it integral part of
>your system, which is standard in Linux world....
System-wide configuration should be certainly added.. also a System-wide
fixed configuration for proxy settings and so on..
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