Re: User's GNUstep directory

[Philippe Roussel]

Le vendredi 18 septembre 2009 à 16:15 +0100, David Chisnall a écrit :
> On 18 Sep 2009, at 16:03, Philippe Roussel wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Currently I'm using the hardcoded path @"~/GNUstep/Library/ 
> > SimpleAgenda"
> > to save the local calendars users create in SimpleAgenda (if I  
> > create a
> > local agenda called 'private', it will be saved in the file
> > ~/GNUstep/Library/SimpleAgenda/private).
> >
> > I am wondering if :
> >
> > - it's a good place to save user data
> 
> Yes, it's a good place.  Apple tends to favour putting things in  
> Library/Application Support/{AppName} but Library/{AppName} is also  
> fine.

Great.

> > - if there's a better way (not harcoded) to get this directory,
> > something like [NSApp libraryPath] ?
> 
> You want to call:
> 
> NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSLibraryDirectory,  
> NSUserDomainMask, YES);
> 
> This should contain a one-entry NSArray instance containing (the tilde- 
> expanded form of) ~/GNUstep/Library.  Then use - 
> stringByAppendingPathComponent: to add the 'private' bit.

Cool, just what I needed.

David and Richard, thanks a lot for your answers. GNUstep community
might not be enormous but it's always really helpful and friendly,
thanks to you and a few others. I really appreciate it.

Philippe