Comment 7 for bug 355086

I agree with Rhonda - changing the directory name seems very shortsighted. a) What happens when we get to Wesnoth 1.8? b) Is it really impossible to create saved game files so that they have versioning info, and the game can say "sorry, we can't open that file now"? It seems to be it does this anyway - so why on earth change the directory so that code becomes useless?

Rhonda: I realise you have already spent time on this, but might it be worth checking with upstream to see if it would be OK to switch the data directory back? Then people would get a sensible error message instead of just thinking all their games had vanished.

Also, while I'm here, if there's any way of changing the packaging so a small update to the main game doesn't require re-downloading all the music, that would be very cool too :-)

Gerv