Re: Introduction, and Proposed GSFH.

[Pascal Bourguignon]

> From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:31:32 -0500
> 
> Having read the commentary on the GnuStep File Hierarchy, here're my 2 cents:
> 
> Put GNUstep.sh and GNUstep.csh in Tools.  Having them in Makefiles is odd.
> 
> Tools is the place for other miscellaneous scripts (assuming they exist - a 
> fact I'm too lazy to verify).
> 
> I prefer "Apps" to "Applications" as a directory name.  It's close to the 
> app wrapper extension, i.e. .app, and it's the name used in OpenStep.

Let's stay  consistent. When the user  will have learned  that to load
the GNUstep environment from .../Tools instead of .../Toos, he will go
naturally to .../Applications and not to .../Apps.

Note that we're not speaking about an CLI environment with access thru
a 300 b/s  teletype. We're speaking about a  GUI environment where the
users  will  only  have to  click  on  some  icons with  readable  and
understandable names, not cryptic abreviations.



The advanced "users" can always run: 

      ln -s Applications apps ; echo apps >> .hidden
      ln -s Tools bin         ; echo bin  >> .hidden
      export PATH=$(echo `pwd`/apps/*.app|tr ' ' :):`pwd`/bin:$PATH

if they need to run applications and tools from the CLI.


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