Re: Re: where are the (help, etc.) files?

[Jim Parker <hopeye cfl rr com>]

I always liked the use of GNU's stow program.

Basic summary:  Everything is stowed in it's own directory tree under the
/usr/local/stow root.  Stow creates symlinks to the proper locations
(/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib/, /usr/local/man, etc. ).  Uninstalling the
app is just a matter of removing the symlinks.

cheers,
Jim Parker

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, TK wrote:
> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 18:33:08 -0600
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> From: TK <tony kwok 3web net>
> Sender: gtk-app-devel-list-admin gnome org
> Subject: Re: where are the (help, etc.) files?
>
> As a user I despise "environment variables" - imagine 
> keeping them correct and current when there are scores 
> of different application on a computer. And there is no 
> guarantee that their names will not collide. Thus I much 
> prefer to assume only that there will be some fixed 
> relationship between the executable and its auxilliary 
> (help, overall configuration, maker's plate, etc.) files.
> Perhaps they cohabitate in the same directory. Then
> (from the command line at the initialization time -
>  if there is no other way)  I get the path to the executable 
> and open the required files. As long as there is a simple 
> message - something like:  "xyzApp initialization error: 
> unable to find xyzAppHelp.html in the same directory 
> as xyzApp) there is hardly ever a problem, even if the 
> used moves or renames the files.
>
> BTW - is there a POSIX (Linux, Unix...) equvalent of Win32
> GetModuleFileName() or Macintosh CFBundleGetMainBundle() 
> call to return full path to the current executable? 
>
> TK
>  
> Anthony K. Transportation Systems - no HTML mail please. 
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