On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
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.
I'm sorry, but I disagree. There are not three but FOUR places, where the
first one is the information built into the executable during compilation.
The point was where to put "config files". That every binary contains defaults
is a given.
Michael.
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