Forum: The MarketPlace Wishing Well


Subject: Better file structure PLEASE!!!!!!!

LBAMagic opened this issue on Jun 11, 2010 · 17 posts


ptrope posted Fri, 11 June 2010 at 8:01 PM

Has my vote! And, frankly, the path issues should be part of the marketplace QC and acceptance process - NO item should make it to market with file paths that point to the creator's own hard drive structure!

Another thing I would add to all this would be a structure for ReadMe files and locations; personally, I prefer my readme files in a separate folder (and I HATE the "Readme's" folder that DAZ creates - it's a complete waste of time if you want to track down something, not to mention the grammatical error of the apostrophe ;)). They should be something like:

(Poser directory)Read MeVendorNameProductNameProductName_readme.txt
(Poser directory)Read MeVendorNameProductNameProductName_license.txt
(Poser directory)Read MeVendorNameProductNameProductName_promo01.jog

etc. ...

I'm tired of unzipping products and getting "Do you want to overwrite "ReadMe.txt ?" NO, I don't! I also don't want to find it in the Character folder somewhere, nor do I want to find OBJs or textures there. There are so many tools out there to package this stuff - why don't we have any standards?