Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hard coded fg-root path in flightgearstartup?

[Alan T. <ajt...@v-...>]

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From: geneb
Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2017 10:16 PM
To: FlightGear developers discussions
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hard coded fg-root path in 
flightgearstartup?

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Alan Teeder wrote:

> Whilst we are discussing fg-root can I chime in with some of pet my 
> grudges?
>
> On Windows Flightgear´s directory structure does seem a little confusing -
> to me at least.
>
> I use git and the sources plus fgdata are  in C:\Flightgear.  I have
> Flightgear installed in  C:\Flightgear\install\msvc140-64. I have custom
> aircraft in C:\Flightgear\MyAircraft and custom scenery in
> C:\Flightgear\MyScenery.
>
Just a note - it's bad practice to install software to the root directory
of the boot drive - it was deemed "bad" once the Program Files directory
structure was implemented in Windows. (personally, I don't care where you
install software, I'm just pointing this out from a 'best practices'
standpoint. :) )

If it was up to me, the executables would live in Program Files (x86) or
Program Files (x86 vs 64 bit) and ALL the data (and configuration
files) would live in C:\users\<user>\FlightGear.

The leading dot (.fgfsrc) is how *nix hides filenames.  IMO, no
configuration file should be hidden - especially if it's expected that the
end user may make changes by hand editing.  "flightgear.ini" makes more
sense in that context.

g.

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My computers are  single user so this is not much importance to me. If my 
computers were multi-user I would be using C:/user/alan/Documents/Flightgear 
for a work directory , which I think is the equivalent of 
/home/user/alan/Flightgear on unix.

I take your point.

IMHO "Program files" is not a good place for installing  WIP (in this case 
flightgear/simgear git) executables. They belong in the user area. On the 
other hand data should be split between core data and user data. Also (at 
least the last time I forgot to change Flightgear´s  Cmake install 
directory) Visual Studio blocks installing directly into "Program Files".

Alan