[fpc-devel] GetAppConfigDir confusion
Michael Van Canneyt
michael at freepascal.org
Tue Jul 29 11:54:38 CEST 2008
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Ales Katona wrote:
> It seems that currently, GetAppConfigDir performs rather incosistently.
>
> On Unix, it returns path with trailing pathdelim, on windows it returns path
> with random trailing path delim (depends on which branch, see code).
>
> What should it be then?
>
> Considering the importance of this function to programs, it's changes along
> versions (e.g: 2.2.0 vs 2.2.2 vs soon-to-be-trunk) I think we need to document
> the behaviors per-version so people can decide if it's even viable to use atm.
> (I got burned).
>
> So.. questions are:
> 1. trailing pathdelims, yes or no? (of course only if there's something to
> return)
What is the most logical according to you ?
> 2. can I update the doc with per-version peculiarities info?
I'll take care of this.
Michael.
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