[Lazarus] Lazarus IDE creates lots of empty config dirs

[Vincent Snijders]

2011/1/5 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Wanting to test the 0.9.30 branch, I wanted to make a copy of my current
> ~/.config/lazarus/ directory. That's when I noticed lots and lots of
> directories similar to what is shown below. All these directories are empty.
>
>  $ ls -l ~/.config/
>
> ---8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------
> drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-08 14:55 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29
> drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-24 09:23 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 - dunit2_fpc_textrunner.lpi
> drwxr-xr-x 2 2011-01-03 12:11 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 - project1.lpi
> drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-11 11:51 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 - tutoradmin.lpi
> drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-09 15:31 project1.lpi - Lazarus IDE v0.9.29
> drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-11 10:03 tutoradmin.lpi - Lazarus IDE v0.9.29
> ...
> ---8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------
>
>
> * Why are they there?
No idea, I don't have such files in C:\Documents and
Settings\vincent\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus

> * Why the ugly directory names?

Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.

Vincent