On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Avi Drissman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've heard people proclaim the principle of being able to copy a profile
> across systems as being a deciding factor for certain changes (e.g. the
> history epoch change). However, it doesn't seem to be universally held or
> obeyed, and I'm not sure to the extent to which it can be obeyed. So some
> questions:
>
> - Is "profile platform independence" a guiding principle?
>

Yes, sort of.



> - To what extent do we work to make it reality?
>

Not as much as we probably should.



> - In the cases where it can't be kept (e.g. download folder path) should we
> keep a copy for each platform?
>

Good question.  That seems fairly reasonable.



> - Is it worth rewriting today's code that doesn't conform (e.g. extensions
> and themes which use full paths and platform path separators)?
>

Is is a bug if we store absolute file paths in the profile directory.  You
should at least be able to copy it from one directory to another on your
system.

-Darin

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