On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Why does fpc look for .fpc.cfg in the user home dir when it is
otherwise looking for fpc.cfg?
Because the naming convention on unixes is like that for config files in
your home directory. This is not fpc specific.
This convention predates the systems used by desktop environments which
nowadays puts
everything in ~/.config or ~/.share or some other convention. But it is
still in use today.
Just for completeness sake: this is not a convention for configuration
files, but for *hidden* files in general. While in the global configuration
directory (/etc) all files are (normally) visible for everyone the idea is
that inside the user's home directory in most cases the user is only
interested in the normal files of themselves when doing a "ls". Hidden
files and directories are only shown with "ls -a". That is why FPC's
configuration file is hidden: its good tone to hide configuration files in
the user's home directory.
Exactly. That is also why the config directory is called .config or .share.
it is then 'hidden' by default.
Thank you for completing my explanation.
Michael.
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