Re: [Rails-devel] New configuration system

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

Stefan,
Is there an option to import my current configuration, or can I move it
manually, or must I completely recreate it?
Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 10:54 AM
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: [Rails-devel] New configuration system
> 
> I have rewritten the Configuration system for rails.
> 
> I intend to release 1.7.0 today, so it would be great to get some feedback
> soon if the OS specific storage solution works without hassles for Windows
> and Mac
> 
> Stefan
> 
> Major changes:
> 
> There are two major changes for users:
> 
> * The configuration settings are stored in OS specific directories:
> 
> A) Unix-Systems (except Mac):
> ~/.rails (with ~ equals content of system property user.home)
> 
> B) Mac OS-Systems: ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.rails
> (again with ~ equals system property user.home)
> 
> C) Windows-System:
> First it tries to locate the common application data folder (something
like
> C:\\Documents and Settings\\username\\Application Data). There it uses
> the subfolder rails.
> This is done using System.getEnv("APPDATA").
> 
> If this fails the user directory is found using
System.getEnv("USERPROFILE"),
> as user.home has a known unfixed bug on Windows system (see
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4787931
> 
> * The profile system is (hopefully) easier to use now:
> 
> There are predefined profiles: pbem equal to the previous default) and
> prettyUI and ORDocking.
> 
> If a user changes the settings and wants to apply them, the new profile
will
> be stored inside the configuration folder and will be available for
selection (in
> addition to the predefined) at the next start.
> 
> * Internally it was rewritten from scratch and the profiles are a tree
which
> has the root profile at the top. All profiles below only store the delta
to its
> parent.
> 
> User profiles will always link to a predefined profile as a parent to
avoid users
> building deep structures.
> 
> 
>
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