[GRASS-dev] where to store GRASS settings: GISRC and wx settings

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2011/8/29 Markus Metz <markus.metz.giswork at googlemail.com>:
> Looking at trunk, 6.5 and 6.4.2, there is inconsistency both within
> and between branches where to store settings. While 6.4 usually stores
> GISRC in $HOME/.grassrc6 and wx settings in $HOME/.grasswx6, the

right, it was true for <= 6.4.1. Starting with 6.4.2 it's .grass6/wx, see [1].

> Therefore I suggest to use
>
> $HOME/.grass<MAJORVERSION>/rc and $HOME/.grass<MAJORVERSION>/wx on
> everything but MS Windows
>
> and
>
> $APPDATA/grass<MAJORVERSION>/rc and $APPDATA/grass<MAJORVERSION>/wx on
> MS Windows

Agreed, Martin

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/gui/wxpython/gui_modules/preferences.py#L64

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