Re: thoughts on openapp

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 07:56 PM, Nicola Pero wrote:

> > > then how to get that into $PATH?  I think supplying wrapper scripts 
> > > would go a
> > > long way to helping GNUStep integrate with UNIX's command line.
> >
> > ...same problem though - how do you get the wrapper scripts into the 
> > path ?
> > if you can get one you can get the other surely ?
>
> We already put xxx/Tools directories into the PATH.  This happens when 
> you
> source GNUstep.sh at startup.
>
> Perhaps we could put a shell script into Tools,
>
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools/EasyDiff
>
> containing the lines
>
> #! /bin/sh
> exec "/usr/GNUstep/Local/Apps/EasyDiff.app/EasyDiff" "$@"
>
> when you install EasyDiff.app.
>
>
> Then by typing EasyDiff, the app would be started.
>
> That should work, but ... Any comments about this change ?

Make the install a bit more intelligent ... do that on windoze, but
just create a symbolic link from the Tools directory to the binary
on unix systems ... avoiding the overhead of running a shellscript.