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- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 09:28:47 -0500
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk
- In-Reply-To: Stephen Usher's message of Tue, 9 Nov 1993 11:53:47 +0000 (GMT) <8292.9311091153@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: include file problems
-
- >>Of course I'd really prefer to make everything in sys/ a symbolic link
- >>but then everyone would need minixfs or unixmode and gzip/gtar. Hum.
- >
- >I'd prefer the opposite.. the root include directory is already too
- >cluttered (and hence slow to search on a TOS file system) as it is.
-
- Like I said, everyone would need minixfs. The fact that TOS directory
- searches take forever is just another point in minixfs's favor.
-
- >It would probably be a good idea if the MiNTlibs were broken up into
- >subsections which would be placed in subdirectories. This would probably
- >speed up compile times due to the decrease in directory search time. It
- >would probably also aid development, machine support etc could be
- >distinguished from Unix compatability etc etc etc.
-
- It would also give me a large pain in the ass.
-
- Producing these distributions is already enough of a hassle with about
- 6 directories to maintain (and I need to produce 2 different sets of
- diffs in 3 of those.) See Makefile.adm and MKDIFFS and MKLOG. Sorry,
- but even though I agree it would be prettier if it were more organized,
- I refuse to make this even more difficult on myself.
-
- >Also, anyone thought about moving all the Atari-only headers into
- ><atari/*.h>, MiNT-only (ie not Unix compatable ones) into <mint/*.h>,
- >TOS-only ones into <tos/*.h> etc etc etc? I know this would cause a few
- >problems to begin with, but it will be more in the spirit of OpenSystems and
- >POSIX etc. I hope we're all trying to make the Atari development environment
- >as close to a "standard" environment as possible.
-
- Also not gonna happen. For most of the same reasons. Unless, as
- stated in a previous message, someone can point me to some standard that
- the current organiztion of the headers violates.
-
- Cheers,
- entropy
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