Moin, On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 07:20:21PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Could this game be modified to save game state to a per-user location > instead? In SDL 2 or later, the SDL_PrefPath() is likely to be the most > suitable place. Unfortunately SDL 1.2 doesn't have that function, but it > could be copied or reimplemented if necessary: on Unix, it's an > implementation of the XDG_DATA_HOME from the XDG Base Directory > specification <https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/>. > > Ideally the game would copy the high score file from > /var/games/circuslinux into the user's home directory during startup in > order to preserve existing high scores.
Sounds reasonable, I will discuss this with upstream. But since circuslinux still uses SDL1.2 and may not get ported to SDL2 or 3, maybe its time to retire the package? thanks, Christian
