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

[Vinzent Hoefler]

On Thursday 16 July 2009, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> > I am not sure having a 100 MB lazarus *roaming* profile by default
> > would be a good idea.
>
> That's true (although my settings are only 130 kB but they may grow).
> Therefore it would be the best of all worlds to save the Lazarus
> settings to the Lazarus directory.

No. A sane environment shouldn't even grant you write permissions there.

> Then you would not have any 
> problems when using roaming profiles (neither losing settings nor
> performance impact when copying data on logon).

But you would lose your settings when changing the machine, because then 
the settings aren't part of your profile anymore.


Vinzent.