[OpenAFS-devel] Re: OpenAFS: conventions for new @sys? (rs_aix43 s390_linux22)

[jmr@computing.com]

> > The output of config.guess is useful for FSF build tools and for doing
> > some system-specific checks in configure, and that's pretty much it.
> 
nneul> Well, building architecture specific trees of products could be quite
nneul> handy, particularly if you start building versions optimized to
nneul> particular CPUs, etc. 

For this particular one, IMHO you want depot instead; it's ability to
present "sparse trees" is a critical requirement that you can't get
with a filesystem level mapping.

nneul> Or, mapping product trees according to particular environment variable
nneul> choices that would be completely transparent to the calling product.

Although this sounds like it might be useful, be careful about making
the filesystem so complex that you have to be a unix expert to
navigate.  Even @sys confuses most people for a while...

Jim Rowan
DCSI
jmr@computing.com