[Lazarus] The default Lazarus profile directory location

Vincent Snijders vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl
Wed Jun 3 14:11:37 CEST 2009


Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> 2009/6/3 Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl>:
>> If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
> 
> :-) Crappy answer.
> 
> 
>> Correct. The change was needed, because more and more the executable
>> directory was off limits for writing by ordinary users.
> 
> So why not change all platforms to use the GetAppConfigDir(False)
> result?  I'm a consistency freak. ;-)
> 
> 

I used this before there was function GetUserDir: String.

Otherwise I would have chosen AppendPathDelimeter(GetUserDir)+'.lazarus';
:-)

That would be consistent across platforms without breaking older configuration files.

Vincent




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