[Devel] Updated FHS

David Robillard d at drobilla.net
Tue Jan 17 13:09:25 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:
[...]
> >> 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?
> 
> Windows XP and later at least, yet I guess also 2k has that.

Sounds reasonable enough, thanks.  Done.

Speaking of Windows, after a most unpleasant day I've got serd, sord,
and lilv building/working under VC++... I had to cheat and make them
build as C++, but I can't think of any problem this would cause.

-dr





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