Re: [AD] 5.0.0 final release plan

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On 04.01.2011 02:09, Matthew Leverton wrote:
> So for 5.0, I think we can get by with:
>
> * BUNDLED_DATA
> * USER_SETTINGS
> * USER_DATA
> * USER_HOME (c:\users\matthew; /home/matthew)
> * USER_DOCUMENTS (c:\users\matthew\documents; /home/matthew/Documents)
> * TEMP
> * EXENAME

Looks good to me, except that I don't know of any legimitate use for 
that value of USER_HOME on Windows.  I see some apps ported from Linux 
(like Mercurial) that put their config files in there, which they are 
not supposed to do.  What use cases are USER_HOME meant for?

> Then we can address app/system and shared data later if we can come up
> with something that is solid. But for 99% of Allegro programs, I think
> the above is sufficient.