Re: Totally Gormless

[Helge Hess]

On 12. Okt 2005, at 18:54 Uhr, Armando Di Cianno wrote:
> > Frameworks and system wide bundles belong into /usr/local/lib, app  
> > specific bundles into /usr/local/lib/lowercase(appname)-version.
> With respect to FHS, you mean /usr/lib, correct?

Well, yes. Depends. However the important thing is that the setup  
below that is "correct" :-)

> ... so, if packaged by a distro/os, then OGo would be installed as you
> described, but in /usr, not /usr/local, yes?

Yes, the uploaded Debian packages install into /usr. Packages  
(nightly builts etc) provided by the OGo build system in /usr/local.

> I haven't looked into OGo for a while, but out of curiousity, does it
> still/does-it-work support classic GNUstep/OpenSTEP installation
> Domains?

Yes. It works by first checking GNUstep env variables and then  
falling back to /usr/local and /usr. The defaults system of lF uses  
GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT when available and ~/.libFoundation otherwise.

FHS support in OGo is quite hackish API and makefile wise, but a  
necessity nevertheless. It would be great if gstep-make would  
directly support FHS installs.

> I suppose I could just look, but I'm curious if it still
> does, and if it is still planned to be supported for the future.

Yes, we have no intentions to remove GNUstep-env support. Its quite  
useful in hosting setups because you can use it to have multiple  
servers w/o being required to install virtual servers or even  
multiple users.

BTW: you can even have half/half here. Some libs (eg SOPE) coming  
from /usr or /usr/local and the apps from the GNUstep tree. Which can  
be quite convenient too.

Greets,
  Helge
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