RISCOS Ltd                                                         RISCOS Ltd

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                    TECHNICAL NOTE: RESOURCEFS LOCATIONS
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   Document: 20000320-002
  
    Version: 1.00 (08 Feb 2000) JRF: Started from comments on newsgroup
  
  Author(s): Justin Fletcher <justin@riscos.com>



1) RESOURCEFS THIRDPARTY RESOURCE LOCATION

Applicability:

RISC OS 3.5 and later.


Description:

In the past it has been common for everyone to place resources inside
Resources:$.Resources with the consequence that there is a problem with
namespace and with identification of ownership. In addition, this slows the
machine because ResourceFS cannot cache information as efficiently.


Recommendation:

Third party developers are recommended to include their resources in
Resources:$.ThirdParty.<DeveloperName>.<Product/Module>. This should prevent
further confusion in future, and allow for further third party patches to be
applied more safely.




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