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On 2006-12-14, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 December 2006 1:00 am, Peter Wang wrote:
> > On 2006-12-07, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yes, you can add a hook to the system driver vtable, if necessary.
>
> Would it also be allright to add the enum that goes along with it?
> AL_TEMP_DIR, AL_USER_DATA, etc. and an external api al_get_path as well as
> al_mkstemp?
A temp dir is relatively easy to implement portably, but user-data,
home directory, etc. are quite different depending on the platform.
And whatever we add now we have an obligation (sort of) to support in
4.3, so I'd rather not, at least, without a lot more thought.
Peter