[Devel] Updated FHS

David Robillard d at drobilla.net
Fri Jan 13 16:21:13 PST 2012


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.

I have no idea.  The insane complexity and odd/ill-definedness of all
this stuff in Windows is shocking, even for MS.

How portable is this?

-dr




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