| Re: [AD] [ alleg-Bugs-1223257 ] Mac OSX allegro will not read config files |
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On Sunday 19 June 2005 22:12, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > I don't think this is a bug. From my interpretation of the
> > documentation, Allegro will search various paths, including the
> > executable directory, _only_ for the allegro.cfg file. If you specify
> > your own config file, as exconfig does, it will look in the place
> > that you specified, so if you gave it a path-less filename, it will
> > look in the current directory only.
> >
> > I think an argument could be made that this behaviour is rather
> > useless, and it should search the executable directory, that is not
> > what the docs say.
> >
>
> We really need a way to look into various system specific places. E.g.
> in unix, under /usr[/local]/share/program-name/. And under Windows,
> there's probably also a way to find the location where game specific
> single or multi user data are placed. OSX I heared has a yet other way,
> where the data are inside the installation file or something..
>
> One way to make this work would be to just have all file functions check
> all those places by using some system driver function, if a relative
> path (or no path at all) is used.
>
> Is this important enough to be done before 4.2.0? As a recent bug report
> on Allegro showed, Allegro games are currently not really possible to
> install without adding platform specific code.. so it is quite a serious
> issue.
Just picked this up from the tracker. I don't think it's been discussed on
the list here yet?
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