Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Stamps installer on Windows

[Mark K. K. <tux...@cb...>]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Bill Kendrick wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:26:41PM +0100, John Popplewell wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > Would anyone object if I added additional search paths in the Tux Paint
> > executable to check for stamps and fonts directories inside a 'data\'
> > directory in the users 'home' directory on Windows?
>
> Well, I'm not really familiar with building apps for the variety of
> Windows platforms out there, so I'll let others respond to this.
>
> Thanks for working on it, though!

If we make this change, that means the new stamps can't be installed on
the older TuxPaint versions, right?  How can we resolve this problem
elegantly?  A few options come to mind:

  1. The Stamps installer checks for the TuxPaint version, tell
     the user to upgrade.

  2. The Stamps installer checks for the 'data\' path, install
     one path above it if it doesn't already exist.  Make sure
     new versions of TuxPaint creates the empty 'data\' path
     upon installation.

  3. Warn the user on the stamps download page.

  Etcetera...

Also, let's make sure this is *the* TuxPaint path to use for all future
Stamps (and fonts) installations.  Otherwise we'll have to deal with this
backwards-compatibility issue again when we change our minds about the
canonical path.

Otherwise it sounds like a good solution to me.

-Mark


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