Re: Symlinks from Tools to Applications

[Sašo Kiselkov]

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Why not simply modify openapp to:

1. if it is called as "openapp" it would invoke the app given as $1
2. otherwise it would invoke the app given as $0

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
> On 18 Feb 2007, at 10:33, David Ayers wrote:
> 
>> Nicola Pero schrieb:
>>> This might sound heretical, but I'd like to make our FHS integration
>>> more tight by
>>> symlinking app binaries from the Tools directory. :-)
>>>
>>> In other words, when you install GNUMail.app I'd like to create the
>>> symlink
>>>
>>> GNUSTEP_LOCAL_TOOLS/GNUMail -->
>>> GNUSTEP_LOCAL_APPS/GNUMail.app/{...}/GNUMail
>>>
>>> (in the non-flattened case we'd put the symlink in the appropriate
>>> subdir).
>>> (eg, in FHS that would mean
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/GNUMail --> /usr/lib/GNUstep/Apps/GNUMail.app/{...}/GNUMail)
>>>
>> [snip]
>>> Any objections to me adding this symlink ?
>>>
>>
>> I think the general idea is good!   Yet I don't understand the
>> non-flattened case.  Wouldn't we need to create symlink in the target
>> specific executable directory?
> 
> If it's a shell script rather than a symlink, it could have logic for
> finding the correct executable.
> However, I would have thought that for most systems, a symlink to the
> most 'native' executable would do ... ie you don't want a link to a ppc
> binary on an intel machine.  The only case where you have a problem
> would be using different library combos all of which are 'native'.  In
> that case you would have to select which version you want, either at
> install time (for symlinks) or optionally at runtime (shell scripts
> could query gnustep-config/GNUstep.conf).
> I think chris armstrong is right that shell scripts are a better option
> than symlinks.
> 
> 
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