After digging a little bit further, it seems there are more issues with this
patch:
First, the AOT-Runtimes assumes that .mono is under g_get_home_dir()
Secondly, System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal returns internalGetHome
which is g_get_home_dir()
Does it make sense to change this to a MONO_USER_HOME environment variable that
takes precedence over g_get_home_dir(), and then update references to
g_get_home_dir() to check MONO_USER_HOME first?
This would be really useful for use, and possibly others I'd expect.
Tom
On Jun 1, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Tom Philpot wrote:
> Attached is a patch that allows the user (or an embedded application) to set
> MONO_USER_CONFIG to specify a directory location for the .mono folder,
> similar to the MONO_CONFIG environment variable for mono configuration folder.
>
> We have an app which embeds Mono and we'd like to be certain that other Mono
> apps won't be tinkering with our configuration. This also allows us to make
> sure that the .mono folder can be created/updated as certain users don't have
> write access to their home folder, but do have access to sub-folders. We'd
> prefer not to have to ask for elevated permissions just to create a hidden
> config folder. Finally, this allows our application not to scatter
> configuration information throughout the file system as we can put all our
> configuration under an application specific folder.
>
> This patch is MIT/X11 licensed.
>
>
> Index: mono-config.c
> ===================================================================
> --- mono-config.c (revision 158291)
> +++ mono-config.c (working copy)
> @@ -560,7 +560,9 @@
> g_free (mono_cfg);
>
> #ifndef TARGET_WIN32
> - home = g_get_home_dir ();
> + home = g_getenv ("MONO_USER_CONFIG");
> + if (home == NULL)
> + home = g_get_home_dir ();
> user_cfg = g_strconcat (home, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, ".mono/config", NULL);
> mono_config_parse_file (user_cfg);
> g_free (user_cfg);
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
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