Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches

[Helge Hess]

Hi Dennis,

On Aug 19, 2004, at 12:34, Dennis Leeuw wrote:
> We might risk that distro's install GNUstep the Un*x way and not as an 
> environment.

Unfortunately you are ignoring the fact that basically no distro 
installs GNUstep at all! And those who do (eg Debian), do it in a very 
weird way because the packages are _forced_ to honour distri policies 
and will _never_ honour GNUstep ones - whether you like that or not.
So in practice you end up with a mixture between GNUstep and Unix which 
is the worst case.

The current setup is a major hurdle for gstep-make based servers and 
tools. Eg in OGo we have some useful small tools like xmlrpc_call, 
saxxml or imapls which no one ever will use if they need to perform 
some complicated setup just for that. IMHO thats a huge potential lost 
because unlike GUI, Foundation is 100% usable and such are tools (not 
apps) and servers.

Note: I'm very much in favor to keep the old layout for GNUstep GUI 
level things and of course I would love to see a GNUstep based 
distribution comparable to MacOSX/OpenStep which is able to follow its 
own conventions.
I also consider it important that for MacOSX deployments I can still 
use gstep-make to deploy to MacOSX standard directories.

Greets,
  Helge
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