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

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:37:32 +0200, rghetta 
<address@hidden> said:

birrachiara> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 23:11 +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker 
wrote:
birrachiara> > In message <address@hidden> on Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:05:09 +0200, 
rghetta <address@hidden> said:
birrachiara> > 
birrachiara> > birrachiara> An /etc/monotone could also be useful, but
birrachiara> > birrachiara> I'm not sure how to handle it on windows.
birrachiara> > 
birrachiara> > *cough* the registry?
birrachiara> Unfortunately you can't store a file into it. You must
birrachiara> use it as a pointer to a real file.

Uh, yeah, that's what I was thinking of.

[...]
birrachiara> Perhaps we could just use a subdir of the installation
birrachiara> directory, even if doing that isn't the recommended
birrachiara> behaviour (the "recommended beahviour" changes with every
birrachiara> windows version anyway :) ) What do you think ?

I've seen many programs that install the following structure:

\Program Files\{Vendor}\{Program}\bin
\Program Files\{Vendor}\{Program}\etc

and a few more directories, have binaries and .dlls in the bin
directory and global configuration files in the etc directory.
I see nothing wrong with that.  Another variant I've seen is to have
the global configuration files in \Documents and Settings\All Users,
but I'm not sure that's the recommended way.

Cheers,
Richard

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