Re: GNUstep on Windows, "desktop" bundles...

[Alex Perez]

Larry Cow wrote:
> Alex Perez a écrit :
> > IMHO GNUstep should be installed into C:\Program Files\GNUstep. People 
> > do not install it there because of the whole "space issue" but that 
> > space issue is rendered irrelevant because NTFS retains the old 8-char 
> > filenames. With this in mind, installing to C:\Progra~1\GNUstep is 
> > perfectly safe.
> >  
> Yeah, it should work, but I can't help considering it a hack. But 
> anyway, the filesystem question is important, since we still don't know 
> how gnustep should see it. Should it see the root as Desktop? as user's 
> directory? as a special dir containing the different drives?

It's not really a hack...the first directory to ever be created in C:\ 
that starts with "progra" will always be suffixed with ~1. This 
compatibility can be harnessed to our advantage.
> > Yes, nvidia and ATI have proven time and time again that simplicity of 
> > downloads are generally more important than size these days.
> >  
> It depends on the size. If you need to package a full mingw installation 
> (with MSys and all), GNUstep-core's source code and a bunch of binaries, 
> it may become larger than expected. Anyway, we can't really discuss that 
> matter without measuring it :)

Agreed. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

> > I suppose it depends on what you mean by "Special". Can you be more 
> > specific?
> Well, we need theme support, that was the most important part of the 
> sentence. We can't offer to maintain two different source trees for the 
> two platforms.
>
> > I agree completely, but it probably shouldn't be the default.
> >  
> Which should be the default? The "integrated" one, or the nextish one? 
> For me, it's the first one...

Sorry for not being more clear...I meant to say that the NeXT-ish theme 
should be non-default once an integrated windows theme is developed 
(this would probably just be a bundle similar to Nicolas Roards' Camaelon)