Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] Include()/Includedir() lua functions, --rcfile=directory

[rghetta]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 23:11 +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:05:09 +0200, rghetta 
> <address@hidden> said:
> 
> birrachiara> Derek Scherger wrote:
> birrachiara>  > having read that I was expecting you would have added
> birrachiara>  > /etc/monotonerc or something.
> birrachiara> An /etc/monotone could also be useful, but I'm not sure
> birrachiara> how to handle it on windows.
> 
> *cough* the registry?
Unfortunately you can't store a file into it. You must use it as a
pointer to a real file.
In other words, we need the help of the installer to let the user choose
where our config file should go.
On the downside, having the installer doing something special means that
you can't just do a network install and put a new dir into the user
PATH. 
Perhaps we could just use a subdir of the installation directory, even
if doing that isn't the recommended behaviour (the "recommended
beahviour" changes with every windows version anyway :) )
What do you think ?

As a side note, perhaps we should also add a win32 chapter to the
manual.

Riccardo