From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28346 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2003 15:11:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28310 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2003 15:11:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO garm.central.cmich.local) (141.209.15.48) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2003 15:11:03 -0000 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:09:41 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2213670021; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:04:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: Hans Ronne Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Xconq output files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Oct 2003 15:09:41.0560 (UTC) FILETIME=[DE26DB80:01C38C1B] X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00479.txt.bz2 Hi Hans, On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Hans Ronne wrote: > I think we could simplify things a bit. One easy step is to give the files > the same names everywhere. This is a good idea. > I am already looking into that. 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. >From a Windows point of view, the "txt" extension makes sense, because a text editor (Notepad, etc...) is likely to be associated with it. But you also lose some descriptivity by using "txt" only; for things such as Xconq.Warnings, I think XconqWarnings.log might be more appropriate. > * 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. Sounds reasonable, except that I would suggest $HOME/Xconq for Unix systems: it will show up earlier in most conceivable file listings (with the ASCII charset, at least). Also, quite a few other programs used capitalized data directories, such as "Desktop" with some window managers. > This would also help to keep the xconq top directory less cluttered, which > is a problem at least under Windows and MacOS. We can further unclutter the top level dir by moving Imakefile and Local.config into a subdir, and then documenting this for people who really dislike configure scripts. Also, the README and INSTALL files could be moved into doc, and a simple README could be left up top telling people to look in doc. This would effectively take 5 files out of the top level. Eric