[haiku-development] Re: BPathFinder and local add-ons/libs directories
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:58:11 +0100
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 01:49:27PM +0100, Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> On 01/17/2015 02:49 PM, Adrien Destugues wrote:
> >I am trying to use BPathFinder to iterate over available add-ons for an
> >application. It works for the system-wide directories, but doesn't
> >include the app-local ones (%A/add-ons). There is a similar behaviour
> >for libraries.
> >
> >Should these be added to the paths BPathFinder returns (possibly with a
> >specific flag to enable them)? This would be good for symetry with
> >load_add_on, which does search there when given a relative path. Or
> >should we leave this up to apps (getting the application path from
> >BApplication, etc)?
>
> I guess a flag for that purpose doesn't harm. Regarding the add-ons, I
> wonder, if there's any application that actually uses the feature to
> override global add-ons. And looking e.g. at the TranslatorRoster code, it
> doesn't seem to support that anyway; I suspect it's even less likely for
> media add-ons.
I'm trying to write one :)
I'm porting an application from MorphOS and I want to use the same
locale catalog format as the original so the translations can be shared.
I wrote a locale add-on to parse Amiga-format catalogs, which I would
like to distribute with the app, without requiring the user to install
it, and without having it trying to load catalogs for other
applications.
I will keep this under a flag then.
--
Adrien.
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