Re: Two issues about filesystem layout

[Jim Balhoff]

On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I was wondering what .../share/config.site is/was supposed to be as I
> can't find any reference in any of the installed scripts or binaries.
> Is this file (and directory) really needed for "running" GNUstep?
>
> Secondly, I installed Pixen (pretty nice, btw) and noticed that it
> creates and uses GNUSTEP_USER/Library/Application Support/Pixen
>
> However, the recently added directory to hold files for application
> support is named GNUSTEP_SYSTEM/Library/ApplicationSupport/ (without a
> space). Since there is some effort in porting applications from OSX to
> GNUstep, I guess the OSX variant should be used.


In Mac OS X 10.4, Apple added some useful constants to the  
NSSearchPathDirectory enumeration: NSApplicationSupportDirectory,  
NSDesktopDirectory, and NSCachesDirectory.  Applications using the  
function NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() shouldn't care how the  
name of the application support folder is spelled.  Maybe GNUstep  
could support NSApplicationSupportDirectory (I see there is already  
GSApplicationSupportDirectory)

Jim