[Scummvm-devel] different default savepath for *nix

[Max Horn]

Am 19.04.2004 um 10:26 schrieb Jonathan Gray:

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> In any event this behaviour
> will be documented in the changelog and readme should it be implemented
> and will happen for the next major release (ie 0.7.0)
>

Documented in the README? Hm, I guess then we'll also rename it to 
DONTREADMEUNDERPENALTYOFDEATH to ensure a few people actually will read 
it? *cough cough*. :-)

Anyway: we currently store a version number in the config file. If we 
implement a change to the default savepath location, it would be easy 
to add a check as follows to the startup code of ScummVM:

   if (no savepath set AND config file version < 0.7.0)
      displayMessage("The default location of the savegames changed. It 
used to be FOO, it now is BAR". etc. etc");

The dialog could do a variety of things, from just warning the user, to 
offering to keep using "." as default savepath, to offering to move the 
files to the new location.


Cheers,

Max