"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> David Megginson writes:
> > Curtis L. Olson writes:
> > 
> >  > The ":" path separate character might be hard to make unambiguos on
> >  > the windows platform.  But it is the standard under unix.
> >  > 
> >  > Would anyone be opposed to using the ";" character as a path separator
> >  > since these paths could show up in universeral config files.
> > 
> > We should use a different one for each OS.  If plib does not already
> > encapsulate this convention, we can write a tiny module to do so.
> 
> I know what you are saying, but this may not be possible if the path
> needs to be set systemwide for a multi-platform installation.  Or if
> it goes in the preferences.xml file or something like that.  We really
> could use a universal, platform independent delimeter in this case.
> 

Might be easier to just place the Landmarks tree at the root of the Scenery
tree like Scenery/Landmarks/ where the Landmarks subdirectory has a tree of
its own in the same layout as the Scenery directory.  Then you don't need
delimiters for multiple paths.

Best,

Jim

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