Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > >Comments? > > > > > What's wrong with the way it's done by everybody else? > > Have hardcoded paths (determined at configure time), and allow override > using a config file. Have a command line option for saying where the > config file should be.
Where do we put the config file so it can be found? We can't assume root privilege to write into /etc. > For Windows, replace config file with "Registry". That is usually > hardcoded for (depending on whether you want it changeable per-user) > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\<company name>\<product name> (replace HKLM > with HKEY_LOCAL_USER if you want per-user config). Doesn't registry require admin privilege on the Windows box? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
