[haiku-development] Re: Directory renaming
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:58:47
Rene Gollent wrote:
> 1) There are very very very few cases where an app should ever be
> even
> looking in /boot/beos directly for anything - 99% of what the API
> does
> is abstract that out, especially since there are things distributed
> between analogous directories in system/ and ~/config/ (i.e. every
> category of add-on).
Indeed.
> 2) Any app that's using the API properly will be using
> find_directory() to get the directory path, which I believe Axel has
> already adjusted to return the correct new paths for those. The number
> of cases that actually break due to this change should be quite small
> at worst.
I needed to update some Haiku apps as you can see. But *those* actually
have a reason to look into the system directories, unlike most others.
> P.S. I might also note, the change has already been committed.
Yes, any reservations can be tested on the real thing ;-)
Bye,
Axel.
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