Re: [rox-devel] LibDirs

[Lennon C. <mag...@gm...>]

Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> I just came up with an idea about how one can solve the issue with
> relocatable LibDirs and how to find them.
What's wrong with an envvar, LIBDIRPATH, that gives locations where
the system can expect to find libdirs? This has several advantages to
your suggestion, not the least of which is that it /already exists/ in
findrox.py . Also, there is no need for a library to register itself=20
on the system (which seems to me to be a little too reminiscent of the
non-relocatable package managers). The only disadvantage I can see is
that existing systems don't  use it already (except findrox.py), and
so there needs to be a generalised findrox.py to find any library -
but this exists in your suugestion, too. To find another *app*, it
would be nice if it were easy to treat it as a single executable and
have it in $PATH... but, AFAIK, the current ways to do this only work
from the shell (unless you have a directory full of symlinks to AppRun
in the various dirs, but then you would need to update it everytime
you add, remove, or rename an app; and it bears resemblance to a
package management database that needs to be kept consistant..).

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