[Lazarus] Lazarus config woes

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> 
>>> michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be schrieb:
>>> 
>>>>> IMO the IDE should look for a configuration in the current (EXE) 
>>>>> directory first, and only into the common directory when no config can 
>>>>> be found there.
>>>> 
>>>> Well, definitely not on Unix. On unix, the EXE directory should never 
>>>> contain config files.
>>> 
>>> I dare to disagree. A SVN checkout is writeable, and this is where the EXE 
>>> is stored, along with the related source files. Consequently the config 
>>> should be stored there as well.
>> 
>> No, no and once more: no.
>> 
>> This is a typical Windows user reasoning which is total nonsense on unix.
>> You should never ever leave a config file or an executable in a source
>> directory, it's plain wrong to do so. I don't know a single unix 
>> application
>> that does this.
>> 
>> 
>> Config files belong in 1 of 3 places:
>> 
>> under /etc/myapp
>> under ~/.myapp
>> under ~/config/myapp
>> 
>> If you want to support multiple configurations, create subdirectories of
>> these directories, period.
>> 
>> Don't try to force Windows habits on Unix users.
>
> I'm sorry, but I disagree. There are not three but FOUR places, where the 
> first one is the information built into the executable during compilation.

The point was where to put "config files". That every binary contains defaults is a given.

Michael.