[nylug-talk] LSB/FHS filesystem silliness, developer silliness

[jh]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> 
>> jh wrote:
>>> Michael B Allen wrote:
>>>> There's no such thing as /bin/objs*. 
>>> The name 'objs' rings familiar to me as something I used to use for 
>>> compiling .o files before linking into a binary 
>>>
>> Turns out to be a bit of both, plus some bad communications thrown in. 
>> The support person assumed that I had untarred to /, which would have 
>> created a /Bin directory. 

> Hi,
> as someone who follows Debian development, first they have a strict
> adhearance to the FHS. Any variation is a release critical bug.
> Violators will be shot ;-) I'd hazard a guess that these developers
> would never, ever join the ranks of a Debian developers 

It is the same old sad tale. Developer has successful Windows product. 
Developer decides to port to Linux. Developer does it very, very badly.

My dev person is screaming over the horrendous state of their header 
files. Integration for anything besides C++ is going to cost us big time 
- either our time, or their "professional services".

Again, the only component software provider we've found that kind of 
gets it are the PDFLib folks. But even they don't provide bindings for 
some of their newer products for things like Perl, Python, etc.


jh