Re: [openMSX-devel] Config files

[Wouter V. <wou...@pi...>]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:

> 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.

Completly agreed. Volunteers?


> 3) And what do we do with the exampleconfigs.xml?

I don't care much for it. In the next release its functionality (showing
all devices and their possible parameters) will be replaced by DTD's.

> 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.

Agreed, but we should also put "roms/" in front of each name. This is the
directory structure we agreed upon.

> 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.

I've looked over the code, but I don't think it needs changes. The only
thing porters/packagers need to change it the openMSX base directory
	/opt/openMSX
	~/.openMSX
All other paths are relative to these 2 base directories.
These paths are coded in one single place in the source tree
	src/file/FileContext.cc:105


Wouter