[Psi-Devel] location of conf files redux

Remko Tronçon remko at el-tramo.be
Tue Dec 11 07:29:47 PST 2007


There's already a flyspray task for this, and a reason why we don't
have this yet: we need to migrate the old configuration to the new
dir, which is the hard part. There are 2 ways to do this:
- On OS X: move the old dir to the new dir (if the new dir doesn't
exist), and link the old dir to the new dir.
- On Windows: do a recursive copy of the old dir if the new dir
doesn't exist yet, and leave behind a
"DO_NOT_EDIT_THIS_DIR_AS_IT_HAS_BEEN_MIGRATED_ELSEWHERE"  file (it
sounds evil to delete the dir, and we need to make sure that the user
doesn't accidentally edit his own dir)

I'm fine with using the latter solution on mac os x as well, although
it is slightly less clean.

Now all we need is someone to implement this properly.

cheers,
Remko

PS: It's "Application Support". Mac OS X can handle spaces in
filenames just fine ;-)


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