Re: FHS compliance for libraries (was Re: gnustep-make experiment)

[Aredridel]

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 22:37 -0800, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> All,
> 
> Sorry to chime in so late on this one, RL has kept me quite busy over the 
> last few weeks. :)
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to change make so that it handles both setups
> (i.e. FHS or GNUstep)?    This way we could have one set of
> GNUmakefiles to handle everything, instead of two (as Nicola
> suggested).
> 
> I believe that all of the extra setup that is necessary to use the
> libraries outside of the FHS represents a "barrier to entry" to some
> users as they may not feel comfortable about using a set of libraries
> which requires them to make basic system level change to ld.conf.   It
> would be nice if there was an option to install the libraries in an
> FHS compliant manner to allow them to be used by GNUstep applications
> or, possibly, by other non-GNUstep programs.
> 
> Before anyone suggests it, I believe the value of splitting
> APPLICATION bundles into the FHS (the various resource dirs) is
> dubious at best and this debate will be left for another time.   For
> now we need to focus on making Libraries FHS compliant.

Libraries are certainly the biggest barrier to entry-- I see a
noticeable slowdown in search path times, increased disk bandwidth usage
for some times, and it affects the entire system. I've removed GNUStep
from several of my workstations where it was little-used, because of
this.

I'd heartily enjoy seeing things moved FHSward. I'd be glad to help
test, too.

Aria

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