Re: [AD] 5.0.0 final release plan

[Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For Linux, I see some people recommending /var/lib for shared data.
>

I guess that's supposed to be "state" data. Anyway, in line with my
previous comments, if this isn't something Linux supports, then I
don't think we should try to add support for it. SHARED_DATA could be
synonymous with USER_DATA on Linux.

We could simply warn that:
a) Not all paths are guaranteed to be unique. So you must use unique
file names if you don't want collisions. (Affects different paths
depending on the platform.)

Under Linux USER_DATA_PATH and USER_SETTINGS_PATH already are the same thing, so we should add that warning anyway.
 

b) The shared folders are guaranteed to be writable by the user AND
permanent (i.e., not /tmp), but they aren't guaranteed to actually be
globally sharable if the platform doesn't natively support that.

Makes sense to me. I assume Windows would be the only platform where the shared folder could be actually shared by different users.