Standardizing various games packaging things across distros

Richard Hartmann richih.mailinglist at gmail.com
Thu May 5 09:57:24 PDT 2011


On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 18:07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> If you do include one of these, please include something about how to
> design games to be installed system wide. Some games seem to be setup to
> run out of people's home directory and mix per user data (needing write
> access) with static data.

As long as we are on this topic, please also add that they should
seperate config from state.

A keybinding is config, X position and windows size are state. This
becomes relevant once you use a VCS to keep configs in sync across
your various computers.



Richard

PS: I don't want to subscribe to the fedora list, but the moderation
emails are somewhat annoying. Hans, can you add me/us as approved
senders, please?


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