On 2008-10-21, Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> However, the normal place to store settings on Windows is in the registry. >>> >> >> Which becomes a single point of failure for the whole system. >> > LOL :-) > > BTW famous big popular programs like firefox and thunderbird > will store their configuration data under "Documents and > Settings\Application data". I believe this is the standard > place to store application configuration data. And inside that > directory, you should be able to use whatever file name you > want, beginning with a dot or not. > > Users who like to go inside "Documents and > Settings\Application data" and delete things without knowing > what they do deserve to have a malfunctioning system for sure. > > BTW it would be nice to have a standard 'Application data" > like directory under UNIX.
The standard is to create either a .appname file or .appname directory in the user's home directory. > It is true that all kinds of programs will create .app files > in your home dir which is not very polite. It _is_ polite. Polite means following the established rules and doing what's expected of you. That's exactly what is expected of applications under Unix. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I wonder if I ought at to tell them about my visi.com PREVIOUS LIFE as a COMPLETE STRANGER? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list