On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto <i...@semperuna.com> wrote: > Wow, I must confess I had never even heard of 'Haiku', so I had to go and > look it up! :
Don't worry, you aren't the first person to tell me that. ;) > On 22 May 2014, at 2:11 am, Joe Prostko <joe.pros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] If it were decided to add in the preferred settings directories for > > additional platforms, I would gladly provide a patch for Haiku. I > don't know anything about OS X though, personally, so I can't help > there. > > > OS X is actually quite simple: > > Preference files can be named anything, but should NOT be 'dot-files' (as > these are normally kept invisible by the system). To avoid name-collision, > Apple suggest developers use a reverse-dns notation to name their app > support files - like "com.mycompany.myapp.prefs". > > - preferences for a single user should be stored in "~/library/preferences/" > - preferences for all users in the machine should be stored in > "/library/preferences/" Yeah, that makes sense. I would probably put the config files for Haiku in something like /boot/home/config/settings/Fossil/ . I don't have it booted currently, but I think settings for all users go in /boot/system/settings/. That macro I mentioned previously is just in place in case we decide to change these locations again later. Probably once we go to legit multiuser, settings would go in something like /boot/home/jprostko/config/settings , for example. > Mac users tend to frown at apps that create invisible folders in their home > directory. A friend of mine downloaded the Atom text editor recently > released by the GitHub folks, and installed it on his Mac - just to quickly > uninstal it, once he found out it wrote one (or two) invisible config files > to his home directory... I heard that about Atom, and if he wrote the thread expressing his concern, I have indeed read it. I am yet to build Atom on my Linux system, even though it has been on my to-do list all week. I hope to get around to that tonight. > I envy programmers like you who talk about hacking directly at C code, as if > you were just editing a web page. That is a bit beyond my capabilities, but > I am very glad there are people like you who use your superpowers for the > benefit of us, mere mortals! ;-) I think you should reserve that praise for the core developers of Fossil who actually know what they are doing. I think my extent of patches for Fossil so far has equated to about three lines including some braces, haha. I don't think it would take too much to add in the changes you'd like, but yes, I don't potentially want to make life harder for the core Fossil devs either, to be honest. They've been good to me. :) - joe _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
