Micha Nelissen wrote:
Vinzent Höfler wrote:
Often, after a first install, the local config does not exist yet (or the user may have deleted it), so your proposed approach would completely disable the local config then, because without the proper

No, when saving you always save to the local config file, because most of the time you're not allowed to write to the global one.

Yes, but your proposal would never return the file name of a local config if it doesn't exist in the first place, so how would an application find out where it's supposed to create it?

Loading is more common than saving, that's the use case I am talking about.

Well, and that use case usually involves loading *both* files, first the global settings and then optionally tweaking it with a user specific configuration. For those cases your approach wouldn't work neither.


Vinzent.

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