| | 1 | = DRAFT Guidelines for 3rd-party software = |
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| | 3 | The idea is a lot of software is either obsolete and running only on BeOS ; or weakly ported and using unixish style stuff. We want to avoid that. To help 3rd paty developpers improve their software, here is a list of things to check before releasing an application. |
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| | 5 | = What rules should software follow = |
| | 6 | * It should work on the latest stable release of Haiku |
| | 7 | * It should work on gcc2 hybrid - other flavours of Haiku may be ignored |
| | 8 | * configuration files should go in home/config/settings; and the path should be obtained by the appropriate functions & constants, not hardcoded - use find_diretory. |
| | 9 | * The app must not write anything to the hard disk except in its own directory (/boot/app/appName, or whatever the user installed it), the configuration directories (home/config/settings, common/), unless the user explicitly asks for it (a save dialog is a good example). |
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| | 11 | * HIG compliance : it's better if your application fits in the look&feel of the whole system. |
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| | 13 | = Similar documents elsewhere = |
| | 14 | * Apple App Store Review Guidelines has a checklist we may borrox some entries from. |
