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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:14:32 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Support --sysconfdir in configure
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

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