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slaapliedje · 08 July 2021, 02:14

Less embarrassing for me, and maybe more for the Amiga in general...

Why was there such a great start off point for some standardized directory structures, but it seems the only one that is properly used is Libs.

For example; the Installer seems to be copied (when it is copied) to Sys:Utilities. But when you download most things from Aminet, they expect it to be in C:

Another example; MUI. It seems to be a fairly standard requirement, as so many applications used it as their framework. Yet the install of it is kind of anywhere you want (I have changed where I like it, used to put the main MUI folder in Libs, but I think now maybe Classes or Expansion makes more sense... and it doesn't copy the MUI prefs into Prefs.

08 July 2021, 02:14	#2847
slaapliedje Registered User Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Utah, USA Posts: 516	Less embarrassing for me, and maybe more for the Amiga in general... Why was there such a great start off point for some standardized directory structures, but it seems the only one that is properly used is Libs. For example; the Installer seems to be copied (when it is copied) to Sys:Utilities. But when you download most things from Aminet, they expect it to be in C: Another example; MUI. It seems to be a fairly standard requirement, as so many applications used it as their framework. Yet the install of it is kind of anywhere you want (I have changed where I like it, used to put the main MUI folder in Libs, but I think now maybe Classes or Expansion makes more sense... and it doesn't copy the MUI prefs into Prefs.