bazaar.conf - decisions: for Windows
John Whitley
whitley at acm.org
Tue Oct 11 18:23:39 BST 2005
Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> * All python programs that have been ported from *nix to windows
> and use ~/.*conf path sometimes place their stuff in C:\* dirctory.
> It rely on current definition of $HOME, $HOMEDRIVE, $HOMEDIR
> environment variables, and sometimes it s wrong decision. It is
> *wrong*, but at least idle, boa-constructor, ipython, (and at this
> moment bzr.dev) does that.
IMO, bzr should definitely not use drive-absolute paths for any conf
files. This persists in the broken Win9x-era model of only one user
per computer. There are a lot of multi-user Windows systems out
there being used by developers -- from terminal server setups to
shared laptops.
-- John
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