[sword-devel] New website - installation instructions

[Ben Morgan]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Matthew Talbert <ransom1982 at gmail.com>wrote:

> > 2) $APPDATA\Sword (preferred location)
> > 3) $HOME\.sword (this needs to be deprecated under windows in favour of
> the above - and it needs engine support added to look for the above)
>
> GS uses this now, but would use 2) if engine support was added.
>
> > 4) $ALLUSERSPROFILE\Sword
>
> GS uses ALLUSERSPROFILE\.sword, but we could probably change to Sword

Under windows, there shouldn't be pathnames starting with ".". That is a
unix thing. This needs to be changed in the engine, as well.

>
> > and maybe (under Vista, anyway - but not sure what the function of
> $PUBLIC is meant to be)
> > 5) $PUBLIC\Sword
> >
> > The last two are very likely to be read only under Vista at least; I
> don't think there is any central directory where all users can write to.
>
> I don't know about $PUBLIC but under XP and Vista, ALLUSERSPROFILE is
> writable by both normal user and administrator on my systems (although
> I was previously under the impression that it wasn't writable on
> Vista).

Digging deeper into the permissions, users can do almost anything to public,
but not delete from ALLUSERSPROFILE. I'm not sure which of those is best.

God Bless,
Ben
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