On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 01:02:38AM +0100, Cesare Falco wrote:
Il 31/10/2012 17:12, Simon McVittie ha scritto:
If the MAME (upstream) developers are willing to handle XDG_CONFIG_HOME
according to the XDG Base Directory specification, great. If not, I
Unfortunately, I'm afraid they're not, as Mame is now a
cross-platform project and this would break portability between
different OS's (and most developers work on Windows).
This doesn't make sense to me. Presumably they have platform-specific code.
Can the XDG_* handling stuff not be in that? What breaks if different
platforms use different directories for this stuff? Most Windows programs use
%USERPROFILE%/AppData or something of that ilk. Obviously that won't work on
Linux.