Re: path handling changes to try out ...

[Helge Hess]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 2. The location of the defaults database is now determined by the
> path specified in GNUSTEP_DEFAULTS_ROOT, or if that is undefined
> by GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT.

just made libFoundation support that. Good idea, I recently moved the 
defaults base to $GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT.

> Actually, I wonder how much use all these environment variables are,
> and whether it would be better to fix them at the point where the make
> package is configured instead of permitting each user to redefine them
> at will?

Different Question: What if the environment variables are not set ? IMHO 
one should switch to a default set. Eg on MacOSX we could 
"automatically" set most variables (to /Library, /Net/Library etc) and 
even on Unix we could check whether /usr/GNUstep 
(/GNUstep,/usr/local/GNUstep) etc exist and autoconfigure for that.

It's somewhat annoying that gstep-make must be loaded even if a 
"standard" setup is used ! No other program does that ...

Question: is it possible to change LD_LIBRARY_PATH after the program is 
started ? This would be required for "auto-configure".

> I also wonder how much use the GNUSTEP_PATHPREFIX_LIST environment
> variable is ... it's really only partially supported right now.

I use it all the time ! It's annoying to check for each of the roots 
manually. Wish for improvement: automatically filter out duplicates. Eg 
in SKYRiX deployment we have all roots pointing to the same path ...

Greeetings
  Helge
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