Re: GNUstep directory layout

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2002-09-06 18:19:26 -0400 Jim Balhoff <balhoff@mac.com> wrote:

> On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 06:18  PM, Dennis Leeuw wrote:
>
> > Adam Fedor wrote:
> >
> > > Dennis Leeuw wrote:
> > > > * I don't understand the Specific directory, what should go in there?
> > >
> > > That was a comment from Stefan Urbanek. GNUMail, for instance, stores
> > > application specific files in .../Library/GNUMail
> > >
> > > If you had a lot of applications that did that, pretty soon your Library
> > > directory would but full of these.
> >
> > That also goes for the Specific directory..., you don't solve it with a
> > seperate directory.
> > But if you want to keep it, a name change would make it more clear,
> > something like ApplicationsLibrary would make it more clear.
>
> On MacOS X, ~/Library/Application Support/ is used for this.  It keeps the 
> Library directory from getting confusingly full.

And if it is added into NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() and 
NSStandartLibraryPaths(), it will keep existing applications and tools happy 
(unless they are using $GNUSTEP_ROOT/Library).

Stefan