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

[Florian Klaempfl]

Micha Nelissen schrieb:
> Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>>> Then you must be the only one since everybody I know despises it. We use
>>> multiple times login sometimes and then the settings are always messed
>>> up. 
>>
>> Well, this causes a headache with fully networked home drives as well ;)
> 
> If configuration files are per application it's much less of a problem.
> And applications can implement a configuration file lock much easier if
> they want to detect multiple activity.

Do they :)? Does lazarus?

> It reduces the per-login problem
> to a per-application-start problem; which is much better already.
> 
>>> If the profile locally exists already it sometimes isn't updated but
>>> afterwards it does overwrite the server's!
>>
>> Hmm, I know only of this if the a machine starts up with a messed up
>> clock because e.g. of an empty mainboard battery.
> 
> Or a server that is not responding quickly enough or so ... Perhaps a 1k
> euro server isn't sufficient after all ;-P

Well, then you need two 1k Euro servers. Anyways, a server not
responding quickly enough to serve a profile will be a real pain serving
a fully networked home/profile dir :)