[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of fnkdat

[djm]

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David MacCormack <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: A GUILE style license.  Details are on the website.
Package: fnkdat
System name: fnkdat
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Appications organize files differently on different platforms. On Win32 
systems, an application is generally installed by a user and it is usually 
(more-or-less) installed entirely under a single tree.  For example, the game 
OmniHype might be installed in the directory C:\\Program Files\\OmniHype\\ and 
its sound effects may be stored in C:\\Program Files\\OmniHype\\snds\\.

On a UNIX system, however, an application may be compiled by a user or a 
packager, and file locations (at least one of them, anyway) are often defined 
at compile-time.  Following the above example, the binary for omnihype may be 
installed as /usr/bin/omnihype and its sound effects may be stored in 
/usr/share/omnihype/snds/.

Fnkdat is a C header and source file that may be statically linked to a binary. 
 It provides a platform independant interface for determining common directory  
names (e.g. \"user directory\", \"config directory\", etc...).

It already exists and you can see it at http://www.maccormack.net/~djm/fnkdat/