Re: [Gretl-devel] 'include' w/o 'open' -- new behavior
Am 22.12.2007 05:45, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, I wrote:
> It's my impression that the great majority of Windows PCs are
> single-user machines, on which the "admin" is also the primary
> user. I know there are exceptions, and we should probably handle
> those exceptions more gracefully.
OK, I've started learning about peon vs admin installs, elevation,
UAC prompts, and all that. What fun. This'll take a while to get
right, but perhaps for 1.7.2.
Allin.
I'd rather say for 2.0, if at all. Sorry for the apparent
misunderstanding, I wasn't asking for non-admin installs, I think it's
not worth the (=your) trouble.
But the recommend way to use even single-user windows machines nowadays
is as for *nix: Use a non-admin account for normal work. IMHO gretl
should support that approach, as it naturally does on Linux. I suggest
to not have a global user dir setting chosen on install, but initialize
it to a reasonable default, say the standard Windows HOME directory
which gretl already can read by getenv("HOME"). Then of course it can be
reset by the user in her/his preferences.
thanks,
sven