Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows

[Holger]

At 22:04 13.10.2003, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:30:32PM +0200, Holger wrote
> > >
> > >Fair enough. On win95/98 there shouldn't be any problems with write
> > >access to %USERPROFILE%.
> >
> > If it exists, no. If the directory doesn't exist, you'll get an error on
> > open().
>
> Good point :-) gnubg should also check for existence, and create the
> directory if possible.

Within limits, yes. See below.

> > >I suggest the following:
> > >
> > >gnubg read and writes .gnubgautorc, .gnubg/* to/from
> > >
> > >(a) HOME on posix systems
> > >(b) USERPROFILE on later windows versions
> > >(c) current directory otherwise
> >
> > What about the datadirectory?
>
> szDataDirectory is currently initialised to "." for windows, so item (c)
> above is the current default.

Well, kind of. After the latest changes it's not necessarily ".". (and then 
there is -d)

> > >The interesting part is "migration" of existing user's profiles. I
> > >simply suggest that gnubg copies .gnubgautorc from the data directory to
> > >%USERPROFILE% if non-existing in %USERPROFILE%.
> >
> > But only if this directory already exists (except for the "\gnubg" 
> part). I
> > wouldn't like gnubg to create folders outside of its install directory on
> > my system.
>
> What do you propose then? I think it's a severe requirement that the
> user must be logged on as super user!

Hmm, let's see. Well, first, logged in as administrator doesn't help and 
actually brings problems. %USERPROFILE% would then be the one of the 
administrator, not the user's. Also, user permissions are enough. Every 
user has in his %USERPROFILE% full permissions.

My suggestion is something like this:
If env. var. USERPROFILE exists
        if directory %USERPROFILE%\gnubg doesn't exist
                mkdir %USERPROFILE%\gnubg
        if directory %USERPROFILE%\gnubg exists
                set it as homedirectory
else
        homedirectory = "."  or  = datadirectory

Btw, there are a few more interesting env. vars on the later Windows 
versions: (ex. from a German Win2k)
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users
USERPROFILE=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username  (for completeness)
APPDATA=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username\Anwendungsdaten
USERNAME=username
ProgramFiles=C:\Programme
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien

Regards,

        Holger