2011/9/14 Flávio Etrusco <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Sven Barth <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 14.09.2011 10:54, Martin wrote: >>> >>> On 14/09/2011 04:31, Flávio Etrusco wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Sven Barth schrieb: >>>>>> >>>>>> 2. Delphi uses the Windows Registry to store its known packages, >>>>>> true, but >>>>>> Lazarus basically does the same for its installed packages in its >>>>>> XML files >>>>>> that are stored in e.g. %APPDATA%\lazarus or ~/.lazarus. >>>>> >>>>> The difference becomes obvious with multiple Lazarus installations. >>>>> Where >>>>> multiple Delphi versions share packages (causing trouble), every Lazarus >>>>> installation must be configured explicitly. >>>> >>>> I believe this has been discussed recently, but can't find it right now. >>>> I'm willing to write patch, which of these features would be >>>> desirable/accepted? >>>> 1) Create user the configuration to include Lazarus version (just >>>> major&minor) in the folder name? (at least NetBeans does this, I find >>>> it nice :) ) >>> >>> 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". >> >> Regards, >> Sven >> > > Exactly ;-)
+1 Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
