From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Support --sysconfdir in configure to specify path to configuration files (v3)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:14:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5E09B8.8030809@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5E07B4.4090205@redhat.com>
On 01/25/2010 03:05 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>>>> I'm not sure about the choice for Windows. Do we want possibly a
>>>> dozen of .conf files all in the same directory as the binaries, or
>>>> maybe it's better to set sysconfdir = ${prefix}/conf,
>>>> confdir=${sysconfdir} on Windows?
>>>
>>> I honestly don't know. What's the normal thing to do with Windows?
>>
>> The registry, I think.
>
> The registry would be used indeed to get the path or to override
> defaults. However, what would be the default value (written in the
> registry by the installer, or used by the program if the registry
> value is absent)?
ini-style configs are not at all uncommon on Windows. I also don't
think it's that uncommon to store executables and config files
side-by-side in a Program Files directory.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-25 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-24 14:22 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce global config (v3) Anthony Liguori
2010-01-24 14:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Support --sysconfdir in configure to specify path to configuration files (v3) Anthony Liguori
2010-01-24 14:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-01-24 15:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-25 14:43 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-25 21:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-01-25 21:14 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-01-25 21:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-01-26 8:56 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-24 14:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Move out option lookup into a separate function Anthony Liguori
2010-01-24 14:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Load global config files by default (v3) Anthony Liguori
2010-01-24 15:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce global config (v3) Avi Kivity
2010-01-24 15:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-24 15:04 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-24 15:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-01-25 11:31 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-01-25 13:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-24 15:25 ` Anthony Liguori
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