Re: [AD] 5.0.0 final release plan

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On January 3, 2011, Matthew Leverton wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:48 PM, torhu <torhu.lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Windows, I'd probably put all readonly data in a subfolder below the
> > installation folder.
> 
> That's okay. Then in your OS X bundle, you'd create that same
> subfolder to make things match.
> 
> > To sum up:  Keep BUNDLED_DATA, USER_SETTINGS and USER_DATA, dump the
> > rest.  USER_SETTINGS and USER_DATA would have the same value on Windows.
> > Or maybe this is too limited?
> 
> I'm fine with that. I agree that the APP/SYSTEM_DATA concept is not
> very practical in terms of cross platform gaming. If one really wants
> to go to the trouble of building an installable package that is cross
> platform, then they can do the extra step of figuring out where to put
> the data files themselves. Most people would just bundle the data near
> the EXE, which would be the recommended and easy way to do it.
> 
> 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
> 
> 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.

So what we have now, except you're renaming SYSTEM_DATA to BUNDLED_DATA... I 
suppose that makes sense.

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