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

[Markus Metz]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
I just noticed that the grass7 NSIS script replaced .grass7 with
GRASS7, probably because it is not possible to create a .grass7
directory in $APPDATA, only a grass7 or GRASS7 directory. Trying to
simplify now.

Markus M