Re: [Gretl-users] gretl 1.6.4
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
The old problems are gone, but there seems to be a new one:
Gretl does not persistently accept new preference settings for
the user directory...
OK, I see what's wrong. I put in place a fallback setting for the
user directory, using CSIDL_APPDATA. This is intended for the case
where
* somebody has installed gretl on a given machine, and then
* somebody else logs onto the machine and runs gretl
The second "somebody" will not have a userdir in the registry.
However, I forgot to make this code conditional on userdir being
an empty string! This is now fixed in CVS.
Should I put out 1.6.5?
And while we're at it:
The directory identified via CSIDL_APPDATA is described on msdn as
"The file system directory that serves as a common repository for
application-specific data. A typical path is C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data."
We also have CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS: "The virtual folder representing
the My Documents desktop item."
Also on msdn, under "How to Comply with Data and Settings
Management Requirements": "The My Documents folder is for
user-created data, but not for temporary storage or application
state data. Non-user data must be stored using the proper AppData
path..."
I've been assuming that CSIDL_APPDATA is the "correct" place to
put the gretl userdir, by default. But actually this directory
seems to be doing double duty. It might be better to split
"userdir", with temporary files going under CSIDL_APPDATA and
explicitly user-saved files under CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS.
As you might imagine, it would probably take some time to get this
right, so I'm not about to do it right now. Moreover, it's not
totally obvious to me exactly how the breakdown between the two
locations should go. For example, which one should hold
X-12-ARIMA and/or Tramo-related files?
Allin