All,
While discussing various ideas with other GNUstep developers today there were a number of ideas that I felt were good, FHS Compliance==
I believe that it's useful to allow GNUstep to support an FHS
compatible layout for the libraries. Currently, everything that is in
/usr/GNUstep
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:21:04PM -0700, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> FHS Compliance
> ==
> We could have Foundation and AppKit in the /usr/local/include
> directory, the libraries in /usr/local/lib and the resources for the
> libraries in /usr/local/share. This could be offere
Andrew Ruder aeruder.net> writes:
>
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:21:04PM -0700, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > FHS Compliance
> > ==
> > We could have Foundation and AppKit in the /usr/local/include
> > directory, the libraries in /usr/local/lib and the resources for the
> > li
On 9 May 2006, at 07:45, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
Andrew Ruder aeruder.net> writes:
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:21:04PM -0700, Gregory John Casamento
wrote:
FHS Compliance
==
We could have Foundation and AppKit in the /usr/local/include
directory, the libraries in /usr/local/lib a
On 9 May 2006, at 03:21, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
NSBundle Abstraction
Why should we be constrained to the .app wrapper?
One of the things which I've done on the NibCompatibility branch is
to abstract the model loading mechanism so that it has "loader"
classes. E
Richard,My apologies for the top post, but the developers of the Yahoo beta Mail application don't seem to realize that people sometimes want to comment inside, or indeed below, a previous email. :)NSBundle does make some assumptions regarding where the resources might be. For instance, it looks i
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On 9 May 2006, at 03:21, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
>
> NSBundle Abstraction
> ===
On 9 May 2006, at 14:40, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
Richard,
My apologies for the top post, but the developers of the Yahoo beta
Mail application don't seem to realize that people sometimes want
to comment inside, or indeed below, a previous email. :)
NSBundle does make some assumptio
On Mon, 8 May 2006 23:17:50 -0500, Andrew Ruder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[...]
> P.S. I think this will also boost our adoption into distros
> incredibly, GNUstep is not exactly the easiest thing to get into a
> distro due to its non-conformity.
Currently, in Debian, the GNUstep packages "fake"
On 9. Mai 2006, at 23:06 Uhr, Hubert Chan wrote:
One problem with getting general FHS compliance that I can see is that
the FHS doesn't have anything analogous to the Network or user
domains.
Well, Network is _roughly_ like /opt and user domains are basically
in ~ (~/bin, ~/lib if you wish
On 9. Mai 2006, at 06:17 Uhr, Andrew Ruder wrote:
I don't believe that this should be an option; this should be
*STANDARD*
operation.
Maybe I'm wrong but people seem to consider FHS vs GNUstep hierarchy
and either/or thing. It certainly isn't. FHS (or other system
hierarchies) is just an
On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:09:39 +0200, Helge Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 9. Mai 2006, at 23:06 Uhr, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> One problem with getting general FHS compliance that I can see is
>> that the FHS doesn't have anything analogous to the Network or user
>> domains.
> Well, Network is _r
On May 10, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Hubert Chan wrote:
the FHS doesn't define things
BTW: before this starts to go in the wrong direction again, we are
not talking about "just" FHS but integrating with the underlying
operating systems conventions. Which may not use FHS but some other
FS structur
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Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 18:14:07 +0200
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> Am 09.05.2006 um 15:40 schrieb Gregory John Casamen
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Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 16:43:35 +0100
Subject: Re: FHS compliance/Abstraction of NSBundle
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> On 9 May 2006, at 14:40, Gregory John Casamento wro
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From: Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 06:40:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: FHS compliance/Abstraction of NSBundle
> Richard,
>
> My apologies for the top post, but
On Wed, 10 May 2006 11:16:33 +0200, Helge Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On May 10, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> the FHS doesn't define things
> BTW: before this starts to go in the wrong direction again, we are not
> talking about "just" FHS but integrating with the underlying opera
On May 10, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Hubert Chan wrote:
My main concern, though, is that since the FHS doesn't
define those directories, users might get upset if we start creating
random directories in ~.
OK, I see. Sure, we should not do this. But is anything put into
GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT except maybe
On Thu, 11 May 2006 00:15:51 +0200, Helge Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On May 10, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> My main concern, though, is that since the FHS doesn't define those
>> directories, users might get upset if we start creating random
>> directories in ~.
> OK, I see. Sur
On May 11, 2006, at 12:39 AM, Hubert Chan wrote:
But if we make GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT to be
~/.GNUstep, then user-installed applications, libraries, etc. get
installed in a not-too-nice place, IHMO.
I can't see how this matters for user-installed applications. They
can (and should be able to) liv
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