Re: [MiNT] Re: location of GEM app configs an

[joska@nuts.edu (Jo Even Skarstein)]

On Mon, 24 May 1999 12:19:01 +0300 (EEST), Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> > GEM files _already_ are spread around: config files to $HOME or
> > $HOME/defaults/, 
> 
> Me looks in The Atari Compendium and finds nothing about that.
>
> However, several MiNT and MagiC specific applications rely upon
> $HOME but this is a bad idea, IMHO, because users need to have
> 2 copies of every config file.

?? Why is this a bad idea? And why must users have two copies of their
configuration-files?

I can only think of advantages by using $HOME:

1. You can actually have different setups for different users. I wish Thing
   would use it...
2. If you're using several OS'es (on my TT I currently have MiNT/MTOS,
   MiNT/N.AES, MiNT/Geneva, Geneva, MagiC and singleTOS) it's easy to use
   different configurations for different setups.
3. Easy backup of configuration-files.

If you don't like this, simply do not set $HOME...

> Anyways, until GEM apps come with a proper installer that also knows 
> how to de-install an application _WITH_ALL_OF_ITS_RELATED_FILES then
> we really should stick to using _one_ single folder per application.

Couldn't agree more. Except for the "until"-part, I would prefer to keep
the "one folder per application"-paradigm forever.


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