[haiku-development] Re: Directory renaming
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:51:01 +0200 CEST
> Hi there,
>
> I just wanted to ask if there are reservations against the following
> suggestions:
>
> 1) rename /boot/beos/ to /boot/system/
Aw...
> 2) move the contents of /boot/beos/system/ to the new /boot/system/
Awwww...
> 3) move everything from /etc that is not POSIX to the
> B_BEOS_DATA_DIRECTORY directory (ie. /boot/system/data/). That would
> affect: joystick, artwork, keymaps, ...
> 4) move /etc/fonts/ to /boot/system/fonts/
> 5) introduce B_SYSTEM_*_DIRECTORY aliases for the B_BEOS_*_DIRECTORY
> constants (which are then either removed or phased out)
Awwwwww...
>
> I know that at least 1) has the potential to cause incompatibilities
yep.
> with existing BeOS applications. But since I assume that we want to
> switch a directory a such earlier or later anyway, doing so before
> our
> first release sounds like the way to go for me.
Didn't we say we would change "beos" for "os" ?
1am here, and I really don't have time now to think about it.
Seems I'll have some nightmares :p
François.
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