[haiku-development] Re: Haiku, Inc. in Contempt of Its Community

  • From: Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:45:44 -0500

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Jim Saxton <black.belt.jimmy@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Using this tree structure will increased the support time needed by
> new users. It will devrease the adoption rate for haiku when it
> reaches r1.
>

On the contrary: the end users (who aren't developers) should not even know
about this.


> All the stuff in ~/config/ is placed there automatically from .hpkg
> files, but the stuff in the longer ( read more difficult ) path,
> ~/config/non-packaged/,  is placed there manually by the user. This
> goes against the whole culture of BeOS and Haiku.
>

Why would a non-developer be placing stuff there manually in the first
place?


> The idea that a bin directory is only for developers is completely
> wrong. If Haiku is to be a Desktop Operating System, then it must
> cater to and empower Desktop users, and not just developers.
>

Right. But I fail to see why end-users will be installing software
manually, and not using one of the three options (HPKG, SoftwareValet .pkg,
or install-anywhere .zip.)

-Augustin

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