Re: [pygame] cross-platform prefs storage?

[Jack Nutting <jn_list@rebisoft.com>]

On Jun 14, 2004, at 6:55 PM, Nicolás Sanguinetti wrote:

> > - Where do Windows programs ususally store these things?  The registry
> > (blah)?  A .ini file in the launch directory (double blah)?
> Why the double-blah? I usually keep the prefs in ini files
Note that I don't have a problem with .ini files as such, I just don't 
want to have a single .ini file, located in the directory where the 
executable is located, to be used by all users.  Here are some reasons 
why:

- Leads to maintenance problems.  When the user installs a new version 
of the program in a new directory, all settings are lost.
- Config settings are effectively global;  All users on the same 
machine will have the same config file, and therefore overwrite one 
another's config whenever they make changes.
- Requires write permissions in the launch directory.  What if the 
program directory is only writable by admin users?  The login user's 
homedir should always be writable.

I can probably think of more reasons, given time :)  I think it's also 
simply a matter of personal conviction on my part, based on using 
multi-user systems for the past 15 years, that per-user settings for 
software preferences are usually the way to go.

//jack