Opened 4 years ago
Closed 4 years ago
#61743 closed enhancement (fixed)
mame: improve user experience when running
Reported by: | mascguy (Christopher Nielsen) | Owned by: | mascguy (Christopher Nielsen) |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | |
Keywords: | Cc: | kencu (Ken) | |
Port: | mame |
Description (last modified by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen))
Presently, when launching Mame, the user is presented with several warnings:
$ mame Unable to create history.db Unable to create history.db
This is due to the default Mame configuration, which references read-only directories within the MacPorts tree.
For the next port release, we should improve on this:
- At a minimum, the port notes should mention that a custom user configuration file (.ini) will fix such issues.
- In addition, it would be helpful to provide an example user configuration file.
- And finally, it might also be worth using a default configuration, that references user-writable areas. Say, ~/Library/Application Support/Mame/
Separately, MacPorts has an older How-To article, regarding the use of Mame: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/Mame
Review that article, looking for inspiration... and update any info that's out-of-date.
Change History (10)
comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
Type: | defect → enhancement |
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comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
Description: | modified (diff) |
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comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
Description: | modified (diff) |
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comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
Description: | modified (diff) |
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comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
Note: Improvements related to the Mame tools, have been rolled into issue:61739
comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
Description: | modified (diff) |
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comment:9 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
Updated our Mame how-to page, per the latest port.
comment:10 Changed 4 years ago by Christopher Nielsen <mascguy@…>
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | assigned → closed |
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A semi-related ticket -- albeit targeted at non-user-facing port cleanup -- is: issue:61739