[Lazarus] The default Lazarus profile directory location

[Vincent Snijders]

Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> 2009/6/4 Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl>:
>> Maybe we should create a GetAppConfigDir branche for Graeme and let him
>> develop all the needed changes.
> 
> My custom branch is available on GitHub, including the upstream
> (untouched clean) branch. Note though, that I have not pushed my
> custom changes to GitHub in a few weeks.
> 

How can I extract the patch with diff that I can apply to create 
snapshots for people to test and find bugs? After all I think this code 
is too dangerous to keep it in trunk. A patch must be reverted quickly 
if it turns out to break too many things.

> 
>> moving primary config paths to paths with spaces and special (non-ascii)
>> characters.
> 
> And here I thought Lazarus with utf-8 support can handle something as
> simple as that without blinking an eye. Was I wrong in that
> assumption?  If I was, then I would seriously start worrying if I was
> a LCL user.
> 

Lazarus yes, the win32 RTL unfortunately not so easily.

> 
>> That is the less concise version of "if it isn't broken, then don't fix it".
> 
> Well it just amazes me that some poor developer went through all the
> trouble in removing the hard-code "c:\lazarus" primary config
> directory to use GetAppConfigDir(false), yet the other platforms are
> still stuck with the old behavior. That might be an indicator to the
> Lazarus core developers, that the right hand doesn't know what the
> left hand is going, and that the various platforms might get even more
> fragmented and fragile over time.

No, the poor programmer replaces ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0)) with 
GetAppConfigDir(false) and then found out, that that doesn't work 
correctly. LazConf is used by Lazarus and LazBuild and StartLazarus, so 
GetAppConfigDir doesn't really work out of the box. I bet you didn't 
think about that when you just proposed to make things easier.

Anyway, I rather work on something more useful than reducing the code in 
lazbaseconf.inc and debugging it.

Vincent