On Tue, 10 May 2011 01:21: wrote: >On 05/10/2011 12:28 AM, Kamo Hiroyasu wrote: >> I do not understand the benefits of FHS for Unixen other than Linux. >> Most Unixen, including OpenBSD, are older than FHS and have their own >> historical constraints. What do we obtain except for switching costs >> if we accept FHS? >> >> It is not we but FHS people that should explain the benefits. If the >> explanation is available and acceptable, we can accept FHS. >> Otherwise, we neet not consider FHS. > >I would see standardization as its own benefit; app developers like >having a set of conventions they can rely on. > >Perhaps, though, I'm not being as clear as I could be. I'm not >necessarily advocating that OpenBSD adopt FHS; my goal is that, since we >are changing FHS, we not exclude anyone who wants to use it. The >standard itself claims to apply to any UNIX-like system, and to not be >Linux-specific; I'm wanting to find out if that's true.
See: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html I think the "claim" should never have been made. A blatant error like that will hardly enhance the reputation of the "standard". The "standard" only applies to those who choose to use it. I've worked with many Unix/Unix-like OSes and the variations are obviously so many and so different that anyone other than a wet-behind-the-ears noobie or someone stuck with one OS for life would know it. > >If it's not, all well and good; we proceed on our separate ways. But I >don't want to assume that without asking. > Lots of luck. The draft LHS was released (IIRC) in 1993 when I was an IBM instructor. It never cut any ice really during my time there which ended in 2005. Six years later and still trying? Give 'em a tick for persistence. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
