XDG_DATA_DIRS consistency

[Bastian, Waldo]

There was no special intention behind the trailing slash and I agree
that it could be removed to be more consistent with common ways to
specify paths. Implementations should behave properly either way. 

Cheers,
Waldo
 
Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro,
Oregon

-----Original Message-----
From: xdg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
[mailto:xdg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Sanel Zukan
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 11:19 AM
To: xdg at freedesktop.org
Subject: XDG_DATA_DIRS consistency

Hi to all,

I would like to ping about XDG_DATA_DIRS (Base directory specs) and
default 
value which is "/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/". Note that in the specs,
only 
default values for this (when a directory is named) is ending with
slashes, which 
is not consistent with other default ones, nor is a common way of
setting multiple directories in an environment variable.

Is there any reason why this could not be "/usr/local/share:/usr/share"
?

AFAIK for all directory variables in specs, is expected that application
do the following construction for the path:

 get_xdg_dir() + separator() + file or another directory

Two slashes in the path will not kill anyone, but it would not be a nice
if one see a message box with "Can't open /usr/local/share//foo" 
(my random thought :)).

Best,
--
Sanel
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