On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/09/2011 10:05, Sven Barth wrote: >> >> On 14.09.2011 10:54, Martin wrote: >>> >>> Storing config in the app dir IMHO is not a good idea (btw older Lazarus >>> did do that.) >>> Most modern OS have guidelines t say otherwise. >>> >>> On linux users can not write to that dir at all. On Windows it would >>> currently work, because lazarus is nt in "Program Files" folder => once >>> it will be, windows will apply "workarounds" by moving the files to >>> "Program Data" or similar (newer windows only). >>> >>> Backup solutions may not find the data in the prg folder, multi user >>> systems will not work... >> >> I believe he meant extending the name where the configuration is stored... >> e.g. "lazarus0.9" instead of just "lazarus". > > What happens if you upgrade? >
Lazarus could search for a suitable configuration (one pointing to its installation directory) and ask the user whether they want to migrate, delete or leave as is the configuration. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
