[Lazarus] Lazarus config woes

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Paulo Costa schrieb:
> On 30/03/2011 14:49, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>>
>> Don't try to force Windows habits on Unix users.
> 
> Beware!
> 
> It's more a single user versus multi user mindset.

Right, and Lazarus is in what category???

In a multi-user environment (company network) an administrator will 
manage all shared resources. In this case it makes sense to have 
user-specific configurations separated from the other (read-only) 
resources. Such environments will have only one Lazarus installation, 
and no user will be ever allowed to modify or rebuild his local Lazarus 
copy.

In all other cases (99.99%) of the Lazarus installations a single user 
will use one or more copies of Lazarus, and should have best control 
over his isolated copies. He must be able to update and rebuild Lazarus 
at any time, even without administrative rights, what defeats the 
installation of Lazarus in a protected directory or, even worse, in 
multiple directories all over his machine, tied together by links and 
artificial rules :-(


IMO the multi-user paradigm *only* applies to the official Lazarus 
releases, if ever, while the SVN checkouts should support isolated 
installations by default.

DoDi