On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 11:53 PM, David wrote:
I'm just observing the developer list. I have no suggestion except a silly game of names.
For a long time /sw has been an "acronym" or at least and ailas for a Fink install on a Mac system. That is my point and it is never moot, since we are indulging in active discussion here and nothing is set in stone.
The "shallowness" of /sw directory is pretty handy. It's an "island" well isolated from other critical areas. This is important for two reasons: First, it minimizes Fink's interaction with other components. Ben Hines was quite right in pointing out that /opt is chosen for similar policy. Second, naturalistically, Finches live in islands.
I'm afraid that most Fink users, current or future, get intimidated if /sw is deeply embeded in /usr/local/fink. It will be convenient for Unix-savvy people, but please bear in mind that not a small portion of users that Fink targets are those people who don't have a clear idea of how to build softwares for themselves (with xmkmf, ./configure, make, make install ...), let alone maintaining their own systems. It's quite likely that /usr/local/fink looks quite confusing for those people.
If I had any complaint about /sw, it is just that the directory name sounds a bit too plain. I wish if only there were a better, more witty name for it!
Why didn' Darwin discover his Finches in islands with much shorter names? Having a directory /galapagos looks too anti-Unix-y.
Cheers,
Kow
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