[Devel] Updated FHS

David Robillard d at drobilla.net
Wed Feb 1 16:38:49 PST 2012


On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 14:28 +0200, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
> 2012/1/14 David Robillard <d at drobilla.net>:
> > On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 17:34 +0200, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
> >> 2012/1/4 David Robillard <d at drobilla.net>:
> >> > I updated the FHS page (and linked it from the front page) and added
> >> > some information about saving user presets, and a new environment
> >> > variable LV2_STATE_BUNDLE.
> >> >
> >> > Feedback welcome,
> >>
> >> I'm back eventually.
> >>
> >> I would suggest to change the default windows system path to:
> >>
> >> %APPDATA%/LV2;%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%/LV2
> >>
> >> Rationale: AFAIK %PROGRAMFILES% is for application-specific stuff,
> >> while %COMMONPROGRAMFILES% is for stuff shared by more applications.
> >> Futhermore, IIRC, there should be differences in how MSI and other
> >> installers handle them.

What about APPDATA?  It seems that is application specific like
PROGRAMFILES, but I can't find any documentation for a user-specific
equivalent of APPDATA.  There's some references around to COMMONAPPDATA,
but I can't find any actual documentation for such a variable...

-dr





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