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UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion
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Robert Purves



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PostPost subject: Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion    Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:02 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
Evert wrote:
hgm wrote:

/usr/share/games is the directory that according to Debian standards programs in /usr/games should look for their data files. So the Debian package for fairymax does put the fmax.ini file that contains the move-generator tables for all of the supported variants in

/usr/share/games/fairymax/fmax.ini

On OS X, the best "native" location is probably something like /Library/Fairy-Max/ or ~/Library/Fairy-Max.
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The directory /usr/local/etc is used to store XBoard's master configuration file, (/usr/local/etc/xboard.conf), which is used to (re)define the defaults for some of the options, including the file name of the user settings file (~/.xboardrc). This is a Debian standard for packages compiled from source. (In their own binary package for XBoard they use /usr/etc/xboard.conf in stead.)

This should probably also be something like /Library/XBoard, although keeping ~/.xboardrc should be ok-ish.

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What would be the best solution here, if we were to make a special compile of XBoard using default file locations tailored to Mac OS?

I think looking in /Library and ~/Library is probably the way to go

Global support files go in:
/Library/Application\ Support/AppName/

Per-user support files go in:
~/Library/Application\ Support/AppName/

Of course, the installer must be fixed to set permissions correctly for newly created directories; this is more important than putting them in Mac-like places.
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UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Stefano Gemma Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:48 pm
      Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Sven Schüle Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:27 pm
            Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Stefano Gemma Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:30 pm
      Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Evert Glebbeek Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:05 pm
      Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Roger Brown Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:50 pm
            Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Ilari Pihlajisto Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:20 pm
                  Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion H.G.Muller Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:03 pm
                        Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Ilari Pihlajisto Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:30 pm
                  Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Stefano Gemma Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:22 pm
                        Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Ilari Pihlajisto Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:06 pm
                              Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Stefano Gemma Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:22 pm
                                    Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Ilari Pihlajisto Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:59 pm
                        Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion H.G.Muller Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:11 pm
                              Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Stefano Gemma Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:35 pm
                                    Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Robert Purves Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:25 am
                                          Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion H.G.Muller Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:36 am
                                                Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Evert Glebbeek Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:44 am
                                                      Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion H.G.Muller Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:44 am
                                                      Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Robert Purves Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:02 pm
                                                            Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion H.G.Muller Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:30 pm
                                                                  Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Robert Purves Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:06 am
                                                                        Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion H.G.Muller Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:14 am
                                                                              Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Evert Glebbeek Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:29 am
                                                                  Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Steven Atkinson Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:20 pm
                  Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Roger Brown Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:57 pm
                        Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Ilari Pihlajisto Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:17 am
                              Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Roger Brown Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:59 pm
      Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Steven Atkinson Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:26 pm
            Re: UCI, xboard protocols and interfaces for Mac OS X Lion Stefano Gemma Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:05 pm
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