[openMSX-devel] Config files

[Manuel B. <ma...@ms...>]

Hi all

Wouter, first of all: thanks for fixing that VDPCmdEngine bug!! Great 
work! It was *indeed* a tricky one...

Now, about the machine configuration files:

1) Wouter moved three of them to the new share directory.  There are 
still a lot of them in the src/cfg directory. What do we do with them?

At least the doubles should be removed, so the TurboR GT and ST and 8250 
configs in src/cfg could be removed since they are in /share/machines too.
2) Second, I propose just to move all of them to the machines directory. 
Later we could spread them as a 'machine pack', upload them to an FTP 
site or even let them be retrieved from an online database.
For now, we should just put them all in /share/machines, IMO. They're 
not really useful in src/cfg, since they can not really be used directly.
This means also the CBIOS stuff should get a machine name.
3) And what do we do with the exampleconfigs.xml?
4) About the names of the ROM files mentioned in those config files. I 
propose to use the names that are used on FUNet in the openMSX dir: 
http://www.funet.fi/pub/msx/system_roms/openMSX Those names are not 
perfect yet, but they are the most informative that you can find on the 
net (atarulum and I came to these preliminary names...). Probably all 
configs use these names, but I'm not entirely sure about that.

Last question: Wouter, did you get a chance to think about those paths 
that are hardcoded? I still feel they should be more easily 
configurable, for porters and packagers.

-- 
Grtjs, Manuel

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