On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Jonas Karlsson <cj.karls...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are some things I'd like to change in Compile and Scripts for > 015 that may not be optimal to release before that. > First I'd like to change default behaviour of Compile to use > /System/Index. I know this is a big step, but I've had enought > headaches with applications looking for files inside it's own prefix > while it really should search global directories since the actual file > was installed by another application or library. Plugins is a good > example.
Yes, I agree with that. We've been postponing that for a few years now and it would be a shame to wait for one more release. I don't really care if 015 is put on hold for a while if the reason is to switch over to /System/Index. > Another change is to move misc. scripts used for building from source, > like the sandboxes and prepareprogram, from Scripts to Compile. Users > that build from source should really use Compile and if they want to > manually build something they're advanced anough to install Compile to > do that. This is to reduce Scripts's dependency footprint as well as > cleaning up Scripts. Also having the sandboxes in Compile may be a > good idea once it changes to ChrootCompile behaviour. Agreed. > A third change, which is very optional but which I think would be a > nice change, is to move "Functions" to share/bash/functions (or > similar) to make it more "normal". I'm pro FHS compability and such > change would mean that we're a little bit more comptible with other > systems. I would have to read more about that. Let's first focus on /S/I and look at this after we've the base apps ready. > The first two I believe we really should do, the last I thought that > we can do "while we're at it". -- Lucas "If you're looking for a reason I've a reason to give: pleasure, little treasure" _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
