Andreas Schneider wrote:
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:19 michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote:
Well, definitely not on Unix.
On unix, the EXE directory should never contain config files.
That depends. I think I'm not the only Lazarus user who has Lazarus
"installed" in his home directory; i.e. without "make install". In
that case it wouldn't hurt to have the configs being looked up in a
subdirectory of that path. However I share Vincent's opinion that the
--pcp parameter is far easier and no matter what system, it's always
pretty easy to create a launcher (shortcut on windows, shell script on
*nix). For example a startlaz_trunk.sh in ~/bin/, that simply executes
~/laztrunk/startlazarus --pcp=...
I agree, but I think that there could be merit in having a "default
default" somewhere that specifies (a) what version of FPC the current
lazarus binary was compiled with and (b) what directory its associated
files were compiled into. Even if this was only used for a messagebox
when the IDE started it would be a useful warning for the numerous
people- inexperienced or otherwise- who get bitten by this.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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