On 2-Mar-09, at 7:22 AM, Garth Dahlstrom wrote:

> Sean had asked for this...   moving settings into the proper  
> subfolder on Windows...  
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490855.aspx#ENAA
>
> SETTINGS_PATH does that... almost.   It works accept for
> win32:DEFINES += 'SETTINGS_PATH=\\\"Local_Settings/Application_Data/ 
> Mixxx/\\\"'
>
> if you change the _'s to spaces like they should be...  you get all  
> kinds of problems between qmake, make and windows escaping...  and  
> basically end up with unterminated " (caused by SETTINGS_PATH=local - 
> DSettings/Application -DData ....)
>
> I can't figure out how the escaping should be.   I shot an email  
> onto the Qt Interest list to see if anyone there knows.
>
> Failing that however I'm going to suggest we just change the folder  
> to ".mixxx" and make it non-win32 specific.
>
> I think that will still be an improvement.
>
> Cheers,
>

Hey Garth/Sean/et al.,

While we're on this subject, what would we have to do to release a  
"portable" version of Mixxx that would run entirely off a USB stick?  
Maybe set that SETTINGS_PATH to just be the local directory like "."  
or something? I'm just curious...

Thanks,
Albert

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