Re: GNUstep.conf

[Graham J Lee]

On 3 Nov 2005, at 17:26, Adrian Robert wrote:

> On Nov 3, 2005, at 4:44 AM, Chris B. Vetter wrote:
>
> > Hello @list,
> >
> > has anyone tried to bend the settings of GNUSTEP_XXX_ROOT such that
> > the GNUstep folders reflect the folder structure of OS X?
> >
> > That is, for example instead of .../Local/Applications/ and
> > .../System/Applications/ just have ONE .../Applications/ (one
> > .../Library/ and so on).
>
> No, but since the OS X structure has its own domains (/System, /,  
> user's home), the most natural mapping might not be to set  
> everything the same.  In fact, taking OS X '/' to be GNUstep LOCAL,  
> the main differences I can see are that GNUstep has System/ 
> Applications, which OS X doesn't, and OS X has an additional '/ 
> Developer' domain where all the dev stuff goes.  (And of course  
> Foundation and AppKit are frameworks on OS X..)

The GNUstep one seems to be [roughly] based on the NeXTSTEP hierarchy:

NeXT/early Rhap         Apple (OSX v.1+)        GNU
/NextApps               /Applications           System/Applications
/LocalApps              /Network/Applications   Local/Applications

However, NeXT then had /NextDeveloper, /NextAdmin, /LocalAdmin and so  
on...I think of the lot of them GNUstep seems to actually have quite  
a sensible setup, although who decided that a particular application  
(Terminal.app say, or ProjectCenter.app) is a System or a Local  
application?  I suppose it's up to the package maintainer on the  
particular OS (e.g. SimplyGnustep)...

Cheers,

Graham.