"Buchanan, Stuart" wrote:
> --- "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> If so, is the convention to name the directories as follows:
>
> $FG_ROOT/data/Scenery - standard SF bay scenery included in base package
> $FG_ROOT/Scenery - scenery downloaded in 10x10 chunks
> $FG_ROOT/WorldScenery - scenery downloaded by terrasync
[...]
>> Not to get overly pedantic, but someone suggested
>> .../.../WorldScenery/{Terrain|Objects} for *nix platforms, and the
>> person doing the documentation work said "ok", so my response was a plea
>> to keep things consistent across platforms and just use
>> $FG_ROOT/data/Scenery as the root of the scenery tree.
>
> Now I'm getting even more confused. I thought $FG_ROOT/data/Scenery was
> just to contain the base package scenery for the SF Bay area.
There's indeed some confusion in here.
$FG_ROOT actually points to the data/-Directory, this means, $FG_ROOT
contains ATC/, Aircraft/ ...., Models/ ...., Scenery/ and so on. As
far as I remember Melchior's intention was to express this. I think
Curt's statement accidentally differed from what he wanted to say - as
he is definitely involved in the creation of the $FG_ROOT-contruct :-)
> Maybe this is a can of worms I don't have enough understanding to want to
> open ...
This _is_ a can of worms but I certainly don't mind talking about it
from time to time. In fact people tend to use different directories
based on their experience and the operating system they use. Adding to
that, those people who know almost only one flavour/distribution of
Unix usually choose a different directory than those who have platform
interoperability in mind .... :-)
Martin.
--
Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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