[fpc-pascal] Lazarus settings and roaming profiles in Windows

[Florian Klaempfl]

Mattias Gärtner schrieb:
> Zitat von Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:
> 
>> Mattias Gaertner schrieb:
>>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:30:23 +0200
>>> Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Jürgen Hestermann, how often do you change your working machine?
>>>> Well, I seldom change it [...]
>>>>
>>>> If I log off, the local profile is saved (partely) to the (Novell)
>>>> home dir and then the local Windows user is deleted completely 
>>>> (including the profile!)
>>>
>>> IMO: This type of sharing does not sound very suitable for a development
>>> machine.
>>
>> I think roaming profiles are something very common in a commercial
>> environment? It is a very good solution for the typcial professional use
>> case where you use most of the time the same machine but sometimes you
>> switch the machine. During your daily work you don't have the bottleneck
>> of network/server access and when logging out, all data is stored again
>> on the server so backups can be easily made. It combines the advantages
>> of a networked home/profile directory and a fat client.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion. Of course this type of sharing makes perfect 
> sense for office computers, stores and thin clients.
> The user settings are *normally* only a few MB and are machine 
> independent, so they can be easily shared in whatever way you prefer 
> (copy/delete, network file system, etc...).
> But development easily creates hundreds or thousands of MB. Sharing this 
> with with auto copy/delete on log on/off is not the best idea.
> That's why I think there are better network sharing systems for 
> development machines (network file systems, 

A network file system is too slow for developing. Compiling anything via 
nfs or smb is a nightmare speedwise.

> incremental syncs, dfs, ...).

Indeed, sources etc. are just stored on the local harddisk being checked 
out from the vcs.