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

[Vincent Snijders]

Jürgen Hestermann schreef:
>>> 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 Lazarus should ask where to put the settings on installation 
> because there are so many different configurations and Lazarus cannot 
> guess it correctly. I would like to have it in the Lazarus directoy and 
> you can be sure that my environment is "sane".

Patches are welcome.


> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Well, I now lose the settings even on the one and only machine I am 
> using Lazarus.

IMHO, that is more a problem of your novel setup than of Lazarus. Anyway 
you know now the trick: --pcp.

Vincent