On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, James Turner wrote:
>
> On 15 Jan 2012, at 14:59, Martin Spott wrote:
>> Anyhow, two directories are still being created in ${FG_HOME}, which
>> are "ai" and "Export". Is it supposed to be permitted for an FG
>> instance to write into the install dir ?
>
> There seem to be various places (but none that important!) which
> assume FG_HOME is writable. The locations we use on Mac and Windows
> reinforce that, since they're in the per-user private application area
> (Library/Application Support on Mac, since a few months ago, and
> $APPDATA on Windows, i.e /users/youname/AppData/NonRoaming, I think)
AFAIK ${FG_HOME} defaults to $HOME/.fgfs/ on unix-like systems so it is
(IMO) reasonable to assume that it is (likely to be) writable.
Cheers,
Anders
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