Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Some suggestions/questions.

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Sjolie wrote:
> On 1999-05-24 21:49:17, Martin Willemoes Hansen wrote:
> > 4. Will 1.8.1 support home dirs? Like ~/freeciv
> > 4a. A maps/scenarios, mods, savegames and tiles dir in ~/freeciv would
> > make sence.
> 
> I agree...
> I already have one using symlinks but it would be nice
> if this was done the right way...

I think a neat way to do this would be to make the datadir 
PATH-like.  That is, a list of directories searched in order.
If the env variable is not set, it could default to, in order:
   ./data     (ie, in the current dir)
   ~/freeciv  (ie, $HOME/freeciv) (or should that be ~/.freeciv ?)
   the configured install directory (eg /usr/local/share/freeciv)

Then you could have a version of freeciv installed, a newer version
in the current dir, and some extra downloaded tiles in ~/freeciv,
and it would all work :-)  (Plus a script which sets the environment
variable to something entirely different :-)

-- David  

(so, ~/freeciv vs ~/.freeciv ?)
(the client and server rc files could also go in ~/.freeciv)
(or search for the client and server rc files in datadir :-)