Re: GNUstep Filesystem Layout

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 18 Aug 2013, at 04:19, Austin Clow <dr_clow@me.com> wrote:

> Could anyone comment on the GNUstep filesystem layout. How the layout is 
> different from platform to platform,
> how to change the default layout,

This is all well documented in gnustep-make.
Basically you select your layout when you configure gnustep-make (you can even 
add yyour own layout definition file and use that).
You might want to look at the firlewsystem layouts and their README and perhaps 
also GNUstep.conf.in and GNUstep.conf to see how the layout chosen alters the 
configuratrion file.

> and how to detect the layout in code.

You shouldn't do that ... the base/Foundation API gives you the paths where 
things should be stored; NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(), 
NSTemporaryDirectory() NSHomeDirectory()  etc.
So you should just use the standard API  and there's no need to work out what 
layout is in use.