Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches

[Markus Hitter]

Am 19.08.2004 um 11:07 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:

> I was saying that it's not possible to rely on relative paths to 
> locate resources ... since people can install applications wherever 
> they want, the resources those applications need won't be in fixed 
> locations relative to the applications.

While this is correct for system provided resources, it isn't true for 
resources bundled with the (set of) application(s).

Enabling drag & drop installation of applications is a great user 
benefit, IMHO. This requires putting resources into some sort of bundle 
together with the application. Apple uses this 
"@executable_path/path/to/resource" hack to achieve this goal.

So, GNUstep should have some equivalent, perhaps better designed, 
functionality. The developer should be free in the choice wether to use 
absolute or relative paths when locating resources.

Another idea whould be to include the application/framework/whatever 
bundle into the standard search path. An application whould have to set 
an individual LD_LIBRARY_PATH at launch time, then.

My $0.02.


Cheers,
Markus

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