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>>> 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)?

Paolo