On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 06:22:40PM -0400, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > Thanks for the feedback, Chris and Iwu > > I am playing in a correspondence chess championship right now and can only > invest one evening per week. Sorry for the delays and all. I'd never > thought I'd use SCID that much! > > Here are my responses. > > *** > > > I can't think of many programs that don't read their config info on > startup. > > Right, but the point here is that loading a spellcheck file will work > without having to restart SCID, while the same kind of procedure won't work > for photos. It took me a while to make the procedure works. There are less > patient users than me who will give up. > > Sure, it's just photos, but I restarted to use the Game Information Area to > see mug faces! > > *** > > > Why should this be an issue? e.g. If I upgrade scid it doesn't remove any > files. > > There are many issues with this, neither of which are critical. > > The first depends upon how you upgrade SCID. As Iwu, I upgrade SCID in a > new directory, which means I keep my old installation intact, in case
OK. In my case I update with 'apt-get update' > something broken happens, or in my specific case because I test many > versions of SCID. Also, we give users a portable binary, which means > either a new directory gets created, or the old one gets replaced by a new > SCID installation. I often use SCID from an USB key, and prefer that kind > of install in general. > > The second is architecture consistency. While I can understand how SCID > came to organize its files the way it does, to put data files in the /bin > directory may be tough to justify on conceptual ground. Besides, there's > already /bin/books, /bin/tcl, /bin/data (!), etc. I see no reason why there > should not be something like /bin/players, or better yet why we shan't > separate /bin and /data, where /data could be used to store players' info > and other kinds of data, in a subdirectory (or not, as I dislike > subdirectories in general). Is there not the FHS to consider? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
