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Proposed drive mappings<br />
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Currently:<br />
U = Used in place of Q for skins/scripts/plugins/vis (and anything else in the root of Q) - currently we check U and then Q for these things manually.<br />
Q = System (should not be writable)<br />
P = Profile<br />
Z = Temporary<br />
T = UserData - the "masterusers" profile, normally Q:\userdata, but can be mapped elsewhere (on xbox at least) via Q:\system\profiles.xml<br />
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Proposal:<br />
Q = system<br />
This is where we install stuff, it never changes (except on update), it's not writable<br /><br />
Z = Temporary<br />
This is where we store file temporarily. It's not shared between users/instances/runs. Very volatile.<br /><br />
U = No idea what to call this<br />
Store mutable data here which doesn't belong to any user. Is there anything we need besides profiles.xml? Should this be writable by scripts or only xbmc itself?<br /><br />
P = profiles<br />
Give some default profile to begin with, can create more profiles. If some file doesn't exist in here, read from Q. On write, copy from Q and make changes.<br /><br />


New names<br />
Currently we support Windows like drive mappings. This is only because of the xbox, and moving forward we would like to change this to a protocol string (system://) or an environment variable (ENV[system]). Proposed names:<br />
Q -> system://<br />
Z -> temp://<br />
P -> profile:// or user://<br />
U -> global://? Do we really need this? It should only be writable by the app itself.<br />
Another possible naming: xbmc://system@path
More suggestions:<br />
We should perhaps have "drives" for plugins, scripts, skins, themes, sounds (since those are subjects to install) and also we need a user (for userdata/scriptdata) and one userdata/scriptdata (globally for all users)<br />
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Have no real idea what to name these.

Latest revision as of 00:22, 10 April 2012

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