Re: [AD] standard path updates

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-01-07, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've committed this along with the xdg user dir stuff for localized
> > documents folder. Tested on Ubuntu and OS X 10.4.
> >
> In response to this doc update:
> 
> http://alleg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/alleg?view=revision&revision=14248
> 
> I set it up so that DOCUMENTS automatically falls back to HOME on
> Linux, so the comment regarding that it's likely to fail is not really
> true. If it fails, then HOME will fail too.

I've already deleted that paragraph, after noticing the mistake.  Sorry.

> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't think USER_DOCUMENTS_PATH should append the org/app name on Windows.
> >
> I was just about to test it on Windows. I didn't realize it was doing
> that. The behavior should be consistent across platforms (either
> always do it, or never).
> 
> But people do need to be careful to not blindly write data into that
> folder. I would rather return the true documents or home dir and just
> tell people in the docs that if they write there without the user
> supplying a filename, they should append org/app name to avoid
> accidentally overwriting a user file.

I think it's enough to mention it in the docs.

Peter