[haiku-development] Re: Directory renaming

  • From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:21:07 -0700

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just wanted to ask if there are reservations against the following
> suggestions:
>
> 1) rename /boot/beos/ to /boot/system/
> 2) move the contents of /boot/beos/system/ to the new /boot/system/
> 3) move everything from /etc that is not POSIX to the
> B_BEOS_DATA_DIRECTORY directory (ie. /boot/system/data/). That would
> affect: joystick, artwork, keymaps, ...
> 4) move /etc/fonts/ to /boot/system/fonts/
> 5) introduce B_SYSTEM_*_DIRECTORY aliases for the B_BEOS_*_DIRECTORY
> constants (which are then either removed or phased out)
>
> I know that at least 1) has the potential to cause incompatibilities
> with existing BeOS applications. But since I assume that we want to
> switch a directory a such earlier or later anyway, doing so before our
> first release sounds like the way to go for me.
> If it really turns out to be a problem, we can still add symlinks that
> make the stuff available at the old locations (but who is supposed to
> mess with /boot/beos/ anyway?).
>
> Any comments?
>
> Bye,
>   Axel.
>
>
>

It's ok with me.  If/when it happens we'll post a notice/reminder on
HaikuPorts to watch for any refs to the old locations and update them
going forward, just as we did with the move to /boot/common.
-scottmc

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