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From: | Riccardo Mottola |
Subject: | Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac |
Date: | Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:26:14 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100418 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 |
Hi,
It's more a philosphical matter, more than "space gain". We waste space elswehere!Well, it means people can start 'Gorm' by simply typing 'Gorm' at the command-line. :-) Also, the application starts faster that way, without the overhead of 'openapp'. You can still use 'openapp Gorm.app' if you want, but there is no particular reason to (and typing 'Gorm' will start the application faster!). If it's really important for you, we could add an option to configure in gnustep-make to disable these symlinks. But I'm not sure what we gain. The symlinks take up very little space on disk. ;-)
It means those symlinks need to be maintained and they get obsolete...I like the idea that an application can be moved, around, installed by untarring it, deleting by trashing it. Like you do in OpenStep or Cocoa.
Riccardo
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