[wx-dev] Re: name for use config file?

[Jamie Gadd]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> On Friday 19 January 2007 11:37, chris elliott wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>>  What should be the default name for the user (wxFile)Config file when
> it's
>>> localed in a subdirectory of $HOME? Currently we use ~/.appname when the
>>> file is directly in $HOME but I think it's not nice to still name it like
>>> this, resulting in names like ~/.appname/appname, when it's in a
>>> subdirectory. I'd like to use ~/.appname/appname.conf
>> Yes, then it can be opened in a plain text editor, so i like this over
>> ~/.appname/appname
>>
>> while the other
>>> possibilities include ~/.appname/appname.rc,
>> This should be for MSW style resources ?? :-)

[snip]

> Overall, though, <appname>rc seems to me the most common thing on Unix, and
> it gets my vote (/without/ the dot between the appname and the 'rc')

>From a quick look at /etc on my machine it seems appname/appname.conf is 
the most common.

+1 for ~/.appname/appname.conf

Jamie