On 2009-08-01 20:15:41 -0400, Sergey Gromov <snake.sc...@gmail.com> said:
Here's a nice document about directory layout in UNIX-like OSes: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html I think MacOS should follow this layout at least in part. In particular /usr/local/ is used for locally installed packages which otherwise respect the standard directory structure found in / or /usr/. That is, binaries go into /usr/local/bin/, libraries in /usr/local/lib/ etc. If a package wants to keep its own structure it's supposted to go into /opt/, like /opt/dmd2/whatever.
Well, given that this is Mac OS X we could also put this in /Library/D/dmd and /Library/D/dmd2, two directories which aren't hidden by the file browser. Then put symlinks in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib pointing there. Users will then be able to upgrade without an installer by simply replacing the folder at /Library/D/dmd & dmd2 with a newly downloaded one.
I think that's better than /opt, as /opt isn't present by default on Mac OS X, isn't hidden by the Finder when present (contrary to all other "UNIX" directories at the root) and thus would look a little out of place on the hard drive. And there's already /Library/Python, /Library/PHP and /Library/Ruby in that /Library directory to set a precedent.
-- Michel Fortin michel.for...@michelf.com http://michelf.com/
