At 03:25 PM 10/3/2008 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
Where data files are concerned, however, a developer should only
need to distinguish between read-only, read-write, and samples,
because any finer-grained distinction that relies on
platform-specific concepts (like locale directories) is probably
going to be error-prone.
However, if we don't allow for such distinctions, then people
who e.g. are passionate about their locale files ending up
in the right place on Linux aren't going to be happy.
Yep. As I've said, it should be possible to define optional
extensions that define these sorts of things. They're needed for
e.g. icons, Windows registry entries, etc. anyway.
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