On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
[email protected] schrieb:
IMO the IDE should look for a configuration in the current (EXE) directory
first, and only into the common directory when no config can be found
there.
Well, definitely not on Unix. On unix, the EXE directory should never
contain config files.
I dare to disagree. A SVN checkout is writeable, and this is where the EXE is
stored, along with the related source files. Consequently the config should
be stored there as well.
No, no and once more: no.
This is a typical Windows user reasoning which is total nonsense on unix.
You should never ever leave a config file or an executable in a source
directory, it's plain wrong to do so. I don't know a single unix application
that does this.
Config files belong in 1 of 3 places:
under /etc/myapp
under ~/.myapp
under ~/config/myapp
If you want to support multiple configurations, create subdirectories of
these directories, period.
Don't try to force Windows habits on Unix users.
Michael.
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