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

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Martin schrieb:

> 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...

No guideline forbids to have a link to the executable in the user 
accessible folders.

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