bazaar.conf - decisions: for Windows

[Robert Collins]

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 09:17 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> I would disagree. HOME on windows is not the standard place for global
> configuration. That is $APPDATA/bazaar/2.0/bazaar.conf
> (That is the official location)
> 
> In a default Windows install, there is no HOME.
> 
> There is also an "all users" application data location, though I'm not
> sure what the environment variable is, and it isn't guaranteed to be
> writable.
> 
> There were 2 pieces being discussed here, where should bazaar.conf be
> located, and what should "~" expand to inside the configuration file.
> 
> My thought is on Windows, bazaar.conf should be underneath $APPDATA, and
> ~ should either not be allowed, or expand to $HOME, so that people can
> set it. (And people with domain logins commonly have it set to their
> network mounted drive).

Sure, I'm -not- advocating $HOME or any particular solution.

I'm saying 'bzr should *always* work, *without configuration*, on
windows.'

Rob

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