On 26 August 2013 13:53, steve donovan <steve.j.dono...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Hisham <h...@hisham.hm> wrote:
>> Done! Speaking of hard problems, did you get the time to check my
>> datafile prototype/proposal?
>
> I really liked the fact that there were exactly two functions, and
> everything could be done with that.

And the second one is just a convenience function that calls the first.

> Windows also has standard places for things (a user's home is also
> well-defined) so let me have a look at what's needed.

Sure, a datafile.openers.windows is a must-have, too. We can probably
have one for Mac OSX as well, using those directories such as
"Library", "Application Support", etc -- I took a quick look but
decided not to try to implement it 'blindly' (and I also suppose Lua
users mostly use it "as a Unix"), but there was some info here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3373948/equivalents-of-xdg-config-home-and-xdg-data-home-on-mac-os-x

-- Hisham

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