Re: [AD] SF.net SVN: alleg:[13892] allegro/branches/4.9/src/macosx/system.m

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On November 14, 2010, Michał Cichoń wrote:
> That would be ALLEGRO_INSTALL_PATH which have no sense since Allegro
> knows nothing about installation process.

I don't see why it can't export that info. It also doesn't care about temp 
files, or in fact, any of the paths. Its purely a convenience function for 
people using allegro. And some might wish to actually know that info. We have 
no way of knowing.

> On 14 November 2010 08:11, Thomas Fjellstrom
> <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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> > tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
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