[gccsdk] UnixHome

[alan buckley]

> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 Peter Naulls wrote:
>
> Finally, I want to do away with reliance on !Unixhome. In many cases,
> programs will work fine without it, and create their choices in
> Choices$Write (but sometimes this fails due to nested dirs, etc) but
> will fall back to !UnixHome if they see it. Many apps do however, have
> explicit code to use Choices$Write. One option here is to simply
> modified the existing code for getenv("HOME") in UnixLib.
>
>
Games quite often write screenshots/saved game data and
other information that doesn't quite seem to me to be
Choices so I often wonder what to do with them.
 
Should we just put them all in Choices anyway, stick to
using UnixHome or would it be a reasonable idea to have
a new location for them? e.g. !GameData or something like
it.
 
Wesnoth used it's own directory to solve this problem,
but this is probably over the top for most games.
 
Regards,
Alan
  		 	   		  
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