[haiku-development] Re: Haiku, Inc. in Contempt of Its Community

  • From: Jim Saxton <black.belt.jimmy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:53:55 -0800

On 2/16/15, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 16/02/2015 17:06, Donn Cave wrote:
>> Quoth =?windows-1252?Q?Axel_D=F6rfler?= <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> ...
>>>  From the POV of the implementors of PM, there was no reason to keep the
>>>
>>> old paths intact, as *nothing* should have used fixed paths in BeOS --
>>
>> I've read this a few times, but have no idea what you're talking about.
>> What is the implied alternative to fixed paths?
>
> Something like
> https://api.haiku-os.org/FindDirectory_8h.html ;-)
>
>> I don't have any applications out there to speak of, but I started with
>> BeOS when it only ran on the BeBox, have the Be Developer's Guide, was
>> responsible for the BeOS Python port.  Somewhere along the line I should
>> have run into whatever system feature allows you to avoid fixed paths,
>> but I seem to have completely missed it.
>
> There was even a python module for it:
> http://www.bebits.com/app/590
>
>
> François.
>
>
This argument is flawed. One could use B_USER_LIB_DIRECTORY to place
your program's special lib in and still come up with a read-only
directory. Lets face it, like it or not, changing the directory
structure changed the user interface and the appi.

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