On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jon Nordby <[email protected]> wrote:
> In MyPaint we are storing a couple of application specific things as files > in data/ and during a load-save cycle we recreate these files from scratch. > This has the unfortunate side-effect that everything we don't know whats for > gets discarded. While not really a prerequisite for fixing this, I think > some kind of standardized name-spacing for the stuff in data/ is needed, so > we don't clobber each others files. And specify that a round-trip between > two applications does not delete any application specific data. > > So how do we do this? My initial idea is to keep it real simple: > 1) store application specific files in data/APPLICATION/ > 2) always keep the other subfolders unchanged > Bringing this up again. Is the fact that one can loose or corrupt application specific data during a roundtrip between two compliant OpenRaster applications using a non-issue? Are there any issues with my proposed solution? If not, I'm considering making MyPaint and the oratools GIMP plug-in work that way. -- Regards Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com
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