RE: [openMSX-devel] Config files

[David H. <DHe...@is...>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wouter Vermaelen [mailto:wou...@pi...]
>Sent: donderdag 27 maart 2003 20:12
>To: ope...@li...
>Subject: Re: [openMSX-devel] Config files
>
>> >>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.
>>
>> So, we agreed on a roms/ dir in the extension or machine dir?
>> Is it very interesting to do that?
>> As far as I'm concerned, I'd be very happy having the roms just in the
>> same dir as hardwareconfig.xml. There are no other files there anyway.
>
>Ok.
>
NOK
The idea was, as mentioned before, to have entire machines packaged in
rpm/deb/zip files. And in such case it would be nice to also be able to pack
a scan of the original manual, a disk image of the default provided disks
etc. In such case there will be more files in there and it would be nice if
the dir structure was already prepared for it => having the roms in a
seperate directory.

Ofcourse Maarten already gave an example of a possible problem, the same NMS
machinewith a later release had an other BASIC version... IMHO that whould
for all practical purpose be classified as a seperate machine (probably use
the model number on the label of the machine. This would give us stuff like
NMS8235-0,NMS8235-2 and so on (I'm sure about these numbers for the NMS8235
machines :-)

David