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Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches
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Richard Frith-Macdonald |
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Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:22:08 +0100 |
On 18 Aug 2004, at 02:50, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
If GNUstep-installation-one is installed in /usr/local/GNUstep1 and
GNUstep-installation-two is installed in /usr/local/GNUstep2, then we
need some way of telling one that its in one directory, and the other
in the other, hence the need for a specifiable GNUsteprc, right?
Actually, i would expect that installation one should have hard coded
into it where it lives, since it cannot be easily relocated anyway.
This should solve some of the requirements for a GNUsteprc.
I'm very strongly against having a fixed location which cannot be
overridden hardcoded into GNUstep. I want to be able to produce a
binary software distribution that I can give to a customer on a cd-rom
and tell them to install it and run it wherever they like on their
machine.
I think that all such requirements can be fixed this way. If I want to
run myTool with GNUstep2 instead of GNUstep1, then I should run
/usr/local/GNUstep2/{System,Local,Network}/Tools/myTool anyway, right?
Then you have had to compile two separate versions ... twice as much
work. What you should be able to do is take a single binary
distribution and simply unpack into the location you want it. Then
users of each installation just need to have an environment variable
set to say which installation they are using.
This is not important for most people, but it *is* important if you
need to roll out binary distributions to customers. If you make a
software release which has dependencies on features of a recent
GNUstep, you need to distribute the GNUstep system as part of the
release. You can't ask your customers to grab the latest GNUstep from
CVS, and build it with their own local configuration options before
they can install/use the new release.
- Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, (continued)
Re: Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, jhclouse, 2004/08/12
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, John Davidorff Pell, 2004/08/17
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches,
Richard Frith-Macdonald <=
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, John Davidorff Pell, 2004/08/18
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2004/08/18
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, John Davidorff Pell, 2004/08/19
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2004/08/19
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, John Davidorff Pell, 2004/08/19
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, Armando Di Cianno, 2004/08/19
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, Markus Hitter, 2004/08/19
Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches, Nicola Pero, 2004/08/19