[haiku-development] Question about /system and /boot/system
- From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:25:44 +0100
Hi there,
when looking at the restructured folder hierarchy with respect to
find_directory(), I have realized that it has become quite a mess :-\
This is the current hierarchy (in the pm branch):
boot
common
packages
contents
add-ons
apps
bin
develop
...
settings
system
packages
contents
add-ons
apps
bin
develop
...
For starters, I wonder where /system should point to: currently, /system
points to /boot/system, but that folder just contains the 'packages'
subfolder. While correct in principle, it means that stuff like /system/bin
and /system/add-ons no longer work. I have no idea whether or not that is
going to be a problem with many legacy applications and/or scripts.
Generally I wonder, what's the purpose of /system anyway?
Furthermore, I'm not at all sure what find_directory() should return for
some constants - this is what it does currently:
B_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY => '/boot/system'
B_BEOS_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY => '/boot/system'
...
B_SYSTEM_PACKAGES => '/boot/system/packages'
B_SYSTEM_PACKAGES_CONTENTS => '/boot/system/packages/contents'
B_COMMON_DIRECTORY => '/boot/common'
B_COMMON_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY => '/boot/common'
...
B_COMMON_PACKAGES => '/boot/common/packages'
B_COMMON_PACKAGES_CONTENTS => '/boot/common/packages/contents'
Is that ok or should anything be changed?
What's the meaning of B_COMMON_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY?
cheers,
Oliver
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