From: David Golden (david.golden at domain oceanfree.net)
Date: Sat 29 Sep 2001 - 18:23:50 IST
On Saturday 29 September 2001 16:57, John P. Looney wrote:
> > but there must be a clean way to do
> > it.
>
> Bah.
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/packages/package_name_version
> make install
> ln -s /usr/local/package/package_name_version/bin/* /usr/local/bin
>
hmmm... for some value of "cleaner". I'm aware of all that (it's partly
thanks to autoconf that most GNU apps were so easy to install on AmigaOS
... but not vice-versa.)
What I'd like to see would be :
<click> uncompressing archive<click> running application.
And, from the command line,
cd /Apps/
tar jxvf myapp.tar.bz2
(application is now automagically added to all relevant system paths, just by
virtue of being a subdirectory of Apps.)
Ultimately, I'm thinking something like filesystem-as-database, with
file-watches / triggers / callbacks to "stored procedures" and all sorts of
weirdness - top of my list would be symlinks that are a bit like XML XPath,
so that you can readdir() a virtual directory of, or symlink to, "all files
in any subdirectory of /floogle/ last modified 3 days ago, that are mpegs" .
Microsoft and Hans Reiser are both aiming vaguely in this direction anyway,
so all I really have to do is wait...
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