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On November 13, 2010, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 19:07 +0100, Michał Cichoń wrote:
> > Is the ALLEGRO_PATH a path to the file or directory? I think both.
> >
> > More proper names for _PATH variables are:
> > ALLEGRO_TEMP_DIR_PATH
> > ALLEGRO_DATA_DIR_PATH
> > ALLEGRO_SYSTEM_SETTINGS_DIR_PATH
> > ALLEGRO_USER_DATA_DIR_PATH
> > ALLEGRO_USER_SETTINGS_DIR_PATH
> > ALLEGRO_USER_HOME_DIR_PATH
> > ALLEGRO_EXENAME_PATH
> >
> > Suffixing with _DIR_PATH should solve all doubts.
>
> They sound a bit strange, so not sure it's really needed for the one
> exception we have.
Indeed. I see no reason to insert _DIR.
> > Also ALLEGRO_APPLICATION_PATH is suits better than ALLEGRO_EXENAME_PATH
> > IMHO.
>
> I can only agree to that though.
But that is sensible. Unless we wanted to export the path to where
applications install to.. (/usr/bin? /Applications? C:\Program Files?) I guess
it really depends.
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Thomas Fjellstrom
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