Re: [MiNT] Re: location of GEM app configs and RSC

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

Hi!

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:19:01PM +0300, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> > GEM files _already_ are spread around: config files to $HOME or
> > $HOME/defaults/, 
> 
> Me looks in The Atari Compendium and finds nothing about that.

Look on your harddisk and you will find the files instead. ;-)

> However, several MiNT and MagiC specific applications rely upon
> $HOME but this is a bad idea, IMHO, because users need to have
> 2 copies of every config file.

Which is also an advantage if you have user-dependent configs.

> Anyways, until GEM apps come with a proper installer that also knows 
> how to de-install an application _WITH_ALL_OF_ITS_RELATED_FILES then
> we really should stick to using _one_ single folder per application.

rpm doesn't know if a package is GEM or not.  It can do all that.

Anyway, resource files are a bad idea in general (IMHO).  It would be
better to translate only the strings instead of keeping a lot of binary
rsc files.

Ciao

Guido
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