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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:51:29 +0200
Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:

> >> 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".

You can create a feature request (bug tracker) for the windows
installer to ask for the config directory. Then the windows installer
can setup the pcp parameter in the links.

 
> >> 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.

Use the pcp param.

Mattias