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

[David Ayers]

Alex Perez wrote:
> 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.
> 

Note that these "standard directory" names for Windows are localized.
Fortunately for German variants "Programme" would also resolve to
PROGRA~1, but that seems like luck derived from the common roots of the
word, which I doubt we'll have for every language windows supports.

Cheers,
David