What's the perfect (OS independent) way of storing filepaths ?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:50:46 +0200, Stef Mientki wrote:

> Duncan, in windows it's begin to become less common to store settings in
> Docs&Settings,
> because these directories are destroyed by roaming profiles 

Isn't *everything* destroyed by roaming profiles? *wink*

Seriously, I don't know anyone who has anything nice to say about roaming 
profiles.


> (a big
> reason why I can't run Picassa ;-(
> It's more common to follow the portable apps approach, store them in the
> application directory.

User config files in a global directory? That bites.


 
-- 
Steven