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

[Martin Willemoes Hansen <mwh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

Yes that would be nice.

> 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)

My mistake I meant ~/.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 :-)
 
This would make it nice for savegames too. ~/.freeciv/savegames/

Best regards

Martin Willemoes Hansen

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