[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #10101: HAIKU package management has broken the haiku file structure.
- From: "bbjimmy" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:24:52 -0000
#10101: HAIKU package management has broken the haiku file structure.
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Reporter: bbjimmy | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: x86
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Comment (by bbjimmy):
I have seen this argument before, with Haiku devs complaining about up-
stream projects not accepting simple and reasonable changes. Now, the shoe
is on the other foot. The Haiku devs are the up-stream project and they
just broke all the work of many many application devs, all doing their
work in their spare time. I didn't write YAB or the YAB buildfactory, but
these are the tools I need to develop my software for Haiku.
These changes to the directory tree, especially the read only status of
~/config have broken my ability to code. I work just as hard on my code as
the Haiku devs, and in the long run for haiku, devs like me are just as
important to the operating system as kernel devs. YAB is to haiku as
Visual Basic was to Windows. A lot of software is written in it, or at
least sketched out with it.
Zipfile distribution and symlink, "drop this file here" is not the only
distribution system that is broken. BeOS style .pkg files are broken as
well.
What is wrong with moving packaged file directories to
~/config/packaged/bin and ~/config/packaged/lib and keeping them read-
only? Or at least giving us a directory to place our bin files that will
be picked up by the "#!/boot/home/config/bin/executable" - yab in my
case - scripting line. As for the lib files I do not know of a work
around, I may need to look into the buildfactory code, although I do not
understand most of it.
Just because the application devs do not understand the system facilities
as well as the core system devs does not mean their work is not important.
Yes, we don't do everything "right", but we do add functionality to the
operating system. A little help is all we need.
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