On 13 November 2013 13:53, Dicebot <pub...@dicebot.lv> wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 04:35:12 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: > >> I don't see why we need such sub-directories. The language doesn't seem >> important to me. >> >> I also place the source under /usr/src since they actually aren't >> headers/import files. >> > > Mostly hygiene concerns. One of reasons why C headers are put into > /usr/include is that it is default include location and it allows to to > directly hit "#include <libheader>" after installing a package, with no > explicit paths. Having similar standard location for D library modules is > desired but FHS mandates it to be subdirectory of /usr/include (yes, those > are import files for D). Making common subdirectory to avoid mixing with C > stuff in filesystem is obvious next step. >
That requires co-operation from upstream compiler projects... distributors are free to have local patches by all means to force the compilers to look in non-standard directories. ;-) -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
