[Lazarus] Automatic handling of multiple Lazarus installation - user configuration folder (Was: Re: Search paths per platform)

[Flávio Etrusco]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 14.09.2011 10:54, Martin wrote:
>>
>> On 14/09/2011 04:31, Flávio Etrusco wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
>>> <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sven Barth schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Delphi uses the Windows Registry to store its known packages,
>>>>> true, but
>>>>> Lazarus basically does the same for its installed packages in its
>>>>> XML files
>>>>> that are stored in e.g. %APPDATA%\lazarus or ~/.lazarus.
>>>>
>>>> The difference becomes obvious with multiple Lazarus installations.
>>>> Where
>>>> multiple Delphi versions share packages (causing trouble), every Lazarus
>>>> installation must be configured explicitly.
>>>
>>> I believe this has been discussed recently, but can't find it right now.
>>> I'm willing to write patch, which of these features would be
>>> desirable/accepted?
>>> 1) Create user the configuration to include Lazarus version (just
>>> major&minor) in the folder name? (at least NetBeans does this, I find
>>> it nice :) )
>>
>> Storing config in the app dir IMHO is not a good idea (btw older Lazarus
>> did do that.)
>> Most modern OS have guidelines t say otherwise.
>>
>> On linux users can not write to that dir at all. On Windows it would
>> currently work, because lazarus is nt in "Program Files" folder => once
>> it will be, windows will apply "workarounds" by moving the files to
>> "Program Data" or similar (newer windows only).
>>
>> Backup solutions may not find the data in the prg folder, multi user
>> systems will not work...
>
> I believe he meant extending the name where the configuration is stored...
> e.g. "lazarus0.9" instead of just "lazarus".
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>

Exactly ;-)

-Flávio