On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Martin Spott wrote: > I'm not claiming that The Manual is correct in every aspect, I'm not > even sure what the manual currently says about $FG_HOME, but I know > from gathering information _for_ the manual what $FG_HOME is meant to > be - as written above. > Just look at it from the other side: Anybody implementing his private > assumptions about $FG_HOME into some place of the code (I haven't > looked at the respective commit) does not by definition change the > overall intention of what $FG_HOME is supposed to represent.
Please, I have been following this project since some time around 2005/2006. I know, that is many years shorter than you have, but I have not, as far as I recall, seen $FG_HOME used for anything else than the place to store per-user files. When I looked for the first commit containing FG_HOME I passed all the more recent commits containing that string and my brief inspection didn't see anything that contradicted $FG_HOME as the place for per-user files (~/.fgfs/ etc.). You are much welcome to look closer at these commits. Even if $FG_HOME was originally used for something else (while not leaving any obvious trace in the source repository) I would prefer that we let the current usage from the last 5-6 years prevail rather than trying to revert and replace that with something else now. Maybe $FG_BASE or $FG_INSTALLDIR for the installation directory? Cheers, Anders -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Gidenstam WWW: http://gitorious.org/anders-hangar http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
