Re: GNUstep directory layout

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 06:17 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf 
wrote:

> > > The last MAJOR change I'm debating is the Developer domain. It would 
> > > be
>
> > > nice to have all the developer stuff in one location. The drawback is
> > > that we are separating things, like Libraries and Headers, which 
> > > really
>
> > > should be together.
> >
> > If having a Developer domain means that there is yet another directory
> > where tools and apps can be installed - which means yet another 
> > directory
> > to add to the PATH and/or to the list of dirs to search for apps, then
> > that is another obvious drawback - PATH and similar variables are 
> > already
> > too long and big.
>
> Do you think this is really still an issues on today's fast systems?

Yes... it's not so much a performance issue as one of
readability/simplicity/ease-of-use.  I'd like to decrease the amount of
stuff in environment variables where possible, not increase it.

> The
> pro for having a Developer domais is IMHO having it all sitting nice
> together and you can get rid of all the stuff at once if you want so.

That's what package installation/uninstallation tools are for.
I think the debian package management tools are the best technically,
but it might be easier to implement a nice front end for rpm stuff
since the make package already builds rpms.