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 > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list