[haiku-development] Re: Removing /boot/common
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:53:41 -0400
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Jim Saxton <black.belt.jimmy@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> If the software is compiled from another language ... say YAB,
>> find_directory() is not available, only the finddir command line tool,
>> and that does not take into account any depreciated directory
>> constants. An old constant is not re-directed to the proper directory,
>> it returns an error. I suggest this be changed so that compiled apps
>> from any language can find the proper directory as long as they can
>> call a command line tool and get the output. This will even help
>> installation scripts work.
>
> It has zero to do with the language, and everything to do with how
> well that language is integrated into Haiku. YAB even promises to
> provide bindings to the Be API, and yet it fails to provide something
> as important as find_directory()...
>
> Really, you can't keep blaming Haiku for poorly designed/written
> software - just like Windows software, the shitty stuff will break
> with every new windows version, while the properly build software will
> continue to work. If the proper APIs aren't used, what can they
> expect?
>
> I'm really getting tired of hearing about how Haiku must cater to YAB.
> Every time you talk about it, YAB sounds worse and worse. I used to
> make a living writing VB software, it can be done right, and it can be
> done horribly horribly wrong. Poorly written software should not be an
> excuse for holding back progress.
With all of Urias's complaints about YAB noted in the record above,
bbjimmy's suggestion seems like a decent solution to his immediate
problem, updating the finddir command to redirect instead of returning
an error needs to happen to make the software work again.
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