[Lazarus] Lazarus config woes

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

> michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be schrieb:
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>
> Reality check, please!

I think this applies to you more than to me :-)

>
> Your considerations apply to standard installations only, not to SVN 
> checkouts.

Try compiling any unix application from source (be that from CVS, SVN or a .tar.gz). 
Then check whether it takes its config files in the directory *where it was compiled*, 
as you propose. You will see that no such thing exists on unix.

For really configurable tools, you get a command-line option to specify a location, 
different from the default /etc or ~/.yourapp.

Lazarus has such a command-line option, see the mail of Vincent.

Michael.