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

  • From: Yourself <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:02:51 -0800

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 09:25:02PM +0100, Axel D?rfler wrote:
> On 02/16/2015 07:53 PM, Jim Saxton wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Only in theory -- of course, this is a huge change from before, but you 
> would place your library in a Software Valet package and tell it to put 
> it into B_USER_LIB_DIRECTORY, and everything would continue to work.
> 
I don't understand.  B_USER_LIB_DIRECTORY is read-only.  Does the current
version of SoftwareValet (I'm presuming you're not misnaming HaikuDepot)
hack this to the non-packaged location or something?

In any case, *very* few of the apps I've downloaded over the years
were in SoftwareValet format.  A lot of people -- including myself --
shunned it as clumsy and inflexible.

(I should probably mention that I eventually got most of the environment
I had built up in pre-PM days now working in a PM partition by a horrible hack! 
 I turned everyting in my old config hierarchy into an hpkg and installed that!)

        -- Pete --

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