Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?

[Helge Hess]

Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Yes and no.  OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP used a flat structure since they had fat
> binaries.  Basically the fat binaries acted in much the same way as the
> multilevel directory structure does in GNUstep.

The major feature of GNUstep make is, that you can store binaries for
multiple platforms while NeXTstep only stored multiple binaries for a
single OS just on different CPUs.

BTW: You don't need Workspace.app to abstract the deep hierachy. Just
use 'openapp', 'opentool' and/or the autogenerated wrapper scripts.

The only things I find sometimes a bit annoying with deep hierachies
are:
a) huge environment variables (this even broke the csh on NeXTstep ;-)
b) a bit of inconvinience when starting gdb (which I prefer doing
without a wrapper)

Helge
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