[Python-Dev] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008 (original) (raw)

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Fri May 2 11:16:33 CEST 2008

-On [20080502 11:00], Christian Heimes (lists at cheimes.de) wrote:

Windows and Mac OS X have dedicated directories for application specific libraries. That is ~/Library on Mac and Application Data on Windows. The latter is i18n-ed and called "Anwendungsdaten" in German. Fortunately Windows sets an environment var to the application data directory.

And Vista has C:\ProgramData{vendor}{application}, which is not APPDATA,butAPPDATA, but APPDATA,butProgramData. $APPDATA points to C:\Users{user}\AppData\Roaming on Vista -- which is very different.

"Windows uses the Roaming folder for application specific data, such as custom dictionaries, which are machine independent and should roam with the user profile. The AppData\Roaming folder in Windows Vista is the same as the Documents and Settings\username\Application Data folder in Windows XP."

I think that's different from what you meant above though, since I doubt you'd want this (the libraries) to roam with the user.

See http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/b/a/3ba6d659-6e39-4cd7-b3a2-9c96482f5353/Managing%20Roaming%20User%20Data%20Deployment%20Guide.doc for more background.

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