Release plans

[James Mckenzie]

Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:47 AM,  <Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com> wrote:
>>>> And I didn't write trivial Mac patches either, e.g. to have
>>>> wineprefixcreate symlink c:\users\xyz\ Desktop + Videos + Documents +
>>>> Music to /Users/xyz/Desktop/ etc.  This happens on Linux, not on MacOS.
>>>> That's another (example of a) missing element.
>>>> (Why didn't I write it? Because I was unsure where to put the #ifdef)
>>>Isn't that linking done relative to $HOME, which should resolve to
>>>/Users/xyz on Mac?
>> That's not the problem. What I also don't know is whether I could hardcode
>> the directories ~/Documents etc. (these already exist in my /Users/xyz,
>> (but what about Tiger?)), or whether I ought to call some OSX API that
>> yields the name of the dir (and possibly creates it if it does not yet exist).
>> I'm not familiar at all with Mac APIs, but it sounds like an easy patch
>> for somebody with a little MacOS programming knowledge.
>
>I haven't used Tiger in ages, but at least for me on Snow Leopard, I
>can't delete those directories, since OSX considers them 'essential to
>OS function'. The likelihood of them missing is small, IMHO.
>
Correct. However, you are free to create new directories for these functions and use them, except the Desktop.  The location of these files could be changed but that is mostly beyond most Mac Users.

Defaulting to $HOME/Desktop and $HOME/Documents is a good first step.

James McKenzie