> There's nothing wrong with a "." at the beginning of a file or > variable name. It simply hides the folder from regular user view, > which is how it should be. The data in there is not intended for > direct user interactions. If people want to see hidden folders/files, > they can enable it.
No, on windows it doesn't hide the folder, which is the problem. > XP is still a recent version of the NT chain. It's still supported > and available on certain machines, and shares a significant amount of > user popularity - that's my meaning of recent. I don't know when in > the NT family the concept was introduced of the User directory, but I > know it's been in since at least XP. Not that it much matters, > because bending over backwards to support anything pre-XP is most of > the SWORD applications is going to be beyond tedious for minimal gain. 8 years old is recent? > From how I understood Troy, it was merely for the installation of > modules - not the creation of them - that he was advocating putting > them in Program Files. Per-user data should probably still be kept in > some sort of per-user location. But installing modules to be shared > across the front ends and users should be done in a more global place. > Perhaps the path \Users\Public\Sword should be used for the regularly > installed modules, and set to SWORD_PATH, then a per-user folder in > %HOME%\AppData\Sword or %HOME%\.sword You are basically saying what GS intends to do, but that is certainly not how I understood Troy. (as for not having "." at the > beginning of folders, I currently have .dvdcss, .housecall6.6, .kde > and .VirtualBox in my home directory -- it's definitely not unheard > of). I know, but it's like creating a visually unappealing program for a Mac user. Littering the user's home directory with .folders is not the most user friendly thing that could be done. > I don't remember if XP supports the \Users\Public, but I think it > does. I know that World of Warcraft, in a recent patch, decided that > it should recommend that users move the whole game folder to > \Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft instead of \Program Files\World > of Warcraft. After all, that's what the public is for -- shared data > that users are allowed to read/write to. What to do on Windows > systems that are pre-user, I have no idea. XP doesn't have \Users\Public. It does have All Users\Documents, which might be a more correct place to put shared things, but I'm not sure. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
