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[Mads Laursen <dossen+sgl AT daimi.au.dk>]

On 16/07/04 09.10, Andrew ruskie Levstik wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:36:24 -0700
> Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm creating a spell for a program that prints a map of Middle Earth and 
> > then 
> > allows you to see specific areas by name.  The spell is pretty much done, 
> > except for that one minorly annoying "feature": the program requires its 
> > data 
> > files to be in the current working directory.  My problem is that I don't 
> > know what to do with the data files.  Should I copy them to the ~ 
> > directory 
> > or to /usr/share, or ...?  Where ever the data files are copied, the user 
> > will have to change to that directory before running the program.  I'm 
> > thinking that the home directory would be best, because of that, but the 
> > files won't be tracked, and I think that would be messy to just drop 10 
> > or 12 
> > files to the ~ directory.
> > 
> Did you think about puting both data files and the executable into
> the /usr/share dir and then making a script to launch it from
> there.... 

One minor nit: I believe that /usr/share is still supposed to be
arch-independent (to allow sharing it). But the basic principle is
right: create $SPELL directory in either /usr/share or /usr/lib as
appropriate, put data files + executable in directory, and put a
script in /usr/bin:

  #!/bin/sh
  cd /$DIRECTORY
  exec $SPELL 

If you find that the program needs to run from a directory which is
user writable (to allow adding extra data files or what ever), take a
look at '/var/lib/sorcery/codex/games/strategy/openttd/openttd'. It
creates a suitable dot-directory in $HOME, with symlinks for the
system files to avoid duplication.

/dossen

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