KStandardDirs and Autopackage

[Arend van Beelen jr.]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 18:45, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> From the status section of the homepage:
>
> "autopackage is currently not API stable. Packages built with one
> version will not work with newer nor older versions. Until we reach
> greater interface stability it is not recommended that you use
> autopackage for your own software."
True, however they're working towards a stable 1.0 quite fast now. I will be 
involved in making sure their current API works well with KDE and for the 
rest they're mostly fixing bugs and making small corrections. A stable 
version should be at most a few months away.

> Now, ignoring the above for a moment, your idea is basically sound. I've
> not looked much further than the homepage at autopackage.org, but I
> couldn't see anything about portability to non-linux systems (it may be
> that there's nothing stopping it being portable, I won't know until I
> dig a little deeper)
The functionality will only work on Linux systems, but it won't harm non-Linux 
systems. It queries /proc/self/exe or /proc/self/maps which are only 
available on Linux, but if it can't find those it simply won't add any 
directories to KStandardDIrs and KSD will still only use the KDE default 
dirs, just like it is now.

Greets,

Arend jr.

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