[openbeosnetteam] Re: our package

>> > Can i suggest to put these etc files in /boot/home/config/etc/ ?
>> > I don't know if it is doable though.
>> Our libraries only look in /etc and it would be better not to change 
>> them 
>> because this makes porting new versions becomes more complicated.
> 
> May I strongly object with this? :-)

Maybe! .... :-)

> I think the ease or porting new versions is no reason to disregard 
> BeOS' standard locations to put files like these. IOW files like 
> .bashrc or .vimrc don't belong where they go now - they belong to 
> B_USER_SETTINGS_DIRECTORY.
> And such, the files you mention would go into a 
> B_BEOS_SETTINGS_DIRECTORY - which doesn't yet exist; in any way, it 
> should be B_BEOS_ETC_DIRECTORY in this case :)
> To properly port a piece of software, changing its paths to match those 
> of BeOS is a requirement.

We can easily change it from "/etc" to B_BEOS_ETC_DIRECTORY, but I would not 
like to change libbind to also check B_USER_ETC_DIRECTORY if there is no good 
reason for it. I would prefer if libbind just compiled on our system without 
any changes. The more we change the more problems will we have with porting new 
versions.

Bye,
Waldemar

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