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On Thursday 07 December 2006 2:42 am, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2006-12-07, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 December 2006 1:19 am, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > On 2006-12-07, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 07 December 2006 12:52 am, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > > > trying to fix pack_fopen_chunk(), and you're wanting to find the
> > > > > directory holding a file that a PACKFILE handle refers to.
> > > >
> > > > Nope. Its for an issue with Window's not implementing a useable
> > > > tmpnam or similar function.
> > >
> > > That's not our problem.
> >
> > Nor is many of the problems that allegro solves :P Allegro is here to
> > make the programmer's life easier. There is no platform independent way
> > of getting these folder's locations. It's yet another job allegro aught
> > to be doing.
>
> Maybe, maybe not. You have to draw the line somewhere, and we are
> trying to stop enhancing the 4.2 series.
Yes, we can draw the line at most of what Qt includes ;) Allegro already has,
and needs its own platform independant file io api, and a single extra
function to grab a few specific directories is hardly a problem.
> > > > http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/588910/633332#target
> > >
> > > Yes, I read that, but I got the impression that the problem was due to
> > > Allegro's use of a temporary files in writing (reading?) datafiles that
> > > was the problem.
> >
> > I wasn't aware that was the real problem, but no, just using the
> > datafile's dir is NOT an option. Allegro itself then needs a platform
> > independent method of getting the "temp" dir's path.
>
> We can use the method of getting the temp directory which is already
> implemented in pack_fopen_chunk, then fallback to the datafile's
> directory.
Which is basically what I've done, but without so many _evil_ preprocessor
hacks.
<Evert> Better, though I don't like ignoring the location for temporary files
like that. Seems like TF's solution would be good.
> Peter
>
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