Re: Xconq output files

[Jim Kingdon <kingdon@panix.com>]

> And do we really need to put the scores files in a common place
> (/var/lib)?

Well, getting rid of this would remove the need for xconq to be
setgid, which would help with some of the known security holes.

I suppose there probably are people who like a common score file
(e.g. perhaps that ISP which has cconq installed).  But I don't know
whether there this is strong enough to warrant keeping the feature.

> I think it would make sense to use the xcq extension only for files
> (game files) that can be opened by Xconq and the txt extension for all
> other text files.

I'm not sure which files this would change.  Instead of txt, I might
just omit an extension (e.g. Xconq.Warnings rather than
Xconq.Warnings.txt).  But the general idea sounds OK.

> * saved games, checkpoints and debug files all go into a "save" directory,
> either within the xconq top directory itself (Mac and Windows) or a visible
> $HOME/xconq directory on Unix.

I guess I'd put these in .xconq.  It isn't really normal for an
application to hardcode the name of any directory not starting in ".".