On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Michael Polak wrote:
> I am very close to releasing alpha version of Arachne for Linux.
> Definitely SVGAlib version, and it is very likely that also GGI version.
Great!
My opinions follow:
> I am thinking about following directory structure:
>
> /usr/bin/arachne
> /usr/lib/arachne/icons/
/usr/share/arachne/icons/
> /usr/lib/arachne/gui/
/usr/share/arachne/gui/
What is this anyways?
> /usr/lib/arachne/fonts/
/usr/share/arachne/fonts/
How are these different from system fonts?
> /usr/doc/arachne/html/
/usr/share/doc/arachne/README
/usr/share/doc/arachne/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/arachne/html/
> /usr/man/arachne.1 ;-)
/usr/man/man1/arachne.1
-or-
/usr/share/man1/arachne.1
> I would like to share mail folder system of PINE, and maybe be able to
> import mail configuration from PINE too.
It should be okay to share the mail folders. You should look at the
procmail locking routines (which are also used in several other mail
programs).
> /usr/ will be replacable by /usr/local/ or /opt/arachne/, or even
> ~/arachne/ if necessary. It is just recommended location.
Good.
> I am not sure about /usr/lib/arachne/, to be true. This is what older
> applications use, but modern apps like KDE or GNOME apps seem to prefere
> /usr/share/appname location instead of /usr/lib/appname, leaving /usr/lib
> directory for real dynamic linking libraries.
If files are real configuration files, maybe place these configs in
/etc/arachne/
Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net
http://bsd.reedmedia.net
