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Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles...
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David Ayers |
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Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles... |
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Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:41:40 +0200 |
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Alex Perez wrote:
> Larry Cow wrote:
>
>>Alex Perez a écrit :
>>
>>>IMHO GNUstep should be installed into C:\Program Files\GNUstep. People
>>>do not install it there because of the whole "space issue" but that
>>>space issue is rendered irrelevant because NTFS retains the old 8-char
>>>filenames. With this in mind, installing to C:\Progra~1\GNUstep is
>>>perfectly safe.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Yeah, it should work, but I can't help considering it a hack. But
>>anyway, the filesystem question is important, since we still don't know
>>how gnustep should see it. Should it see the root as Desktop? as user's
>>directory? as a special dir containing the different drives?
>
>
> It's not really a hack...the first directory to ever be created in C:\
> that starts with "progra" will always be suffixed with ~1. This
> compatibility can be harnessed to our advantage.
>
Note that these "standard directory" names for Windows are localized.
Fortunately for German variants "Programme" would also resolve to
PROGRA~1, but that seems like luck derived from the common roots of the
word, which I doubt we'll have for every language windows supports.
Cheers,
David
- GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Nicolas Roard, 2004/10/20
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Andreas Hoeschler, 2004/10/20
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Larry Cow, 2004/10/20
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Alex Perez, 2004/10/20
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Larry Cow, 2004/10/20
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Alex Perez, 2004/10/20
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Larry Cow, 2004/10/20
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Alex Perez, 2004/10/20
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles...,
David Ayers <=
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Alex Perez, 2004/10/21
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Alex Perez, 2004/10/21
- Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles..., Wim Oudshoorn, 2004/10/21