From kde-games-devel Tue Aug 19 04:40:16 2003 From: Josef Spillner Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 04:40:16 +0000 To: kde-games-devel Subject: Re: [Kde-games-devel] Releasing and installing data files X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-games-devel&m=106126806406659 Good morning, On Tuesday 19 August 2003 05:29, Ian Wadham wrote: > For new readers, KGoldrunner has about 200 levels files. To avoid the > administrative overhead and risk of errors and omissions in Makefile.am > and CVS, I have packed the files into a single "levels.tar" file, with an > extra "install:" step in the Makefile.am to untar the files. Well you could always just do cvs add *.grl :) ... > The only solutions I can think of are: ... 4. Use tar --mode=644 --no-same-owner and omit the last two lines in the Makefile.am. The questions is whether this is compatible to other Unices, in such a case a fallback would be needed. > KDE and Linux will need measures like that, to segregate > responsibility, as they get bigger and more complex. Otherwise > they will wind up with security not much more sophisticated > than Windows has. Once Linux gets some security built-in, KDE will certainly provide nice GUI frontends for configuration. Right now, Linux hardly supports more than file permissions and ACLs. > There should be some easier way to compose and distribute > new data files (e.g. new levels for a game) than by going through > the full development and release cycle, with automake, autoconf, > CVS, and all the knowledge they entail. If I am a photographer > and I have some nice pictures to add to the photo-processor > package's libraries, I should be able to do so with almost > zero technical knowledge of KDE and Linux. There's the classical open source way of handling this problem: Ask someone who does know about it ;) Seriously, if your game supports KStandardDirs properly, it shouldn't be hard to access levels that are in ~/.kde/share/apps/kgoldrunner. Josef -- Play for fun, win for freedom. Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2003: http://www.linux-dresden.de _______________________________________________ kde-games-devel mailing list kde-games-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-games-devel