[Zope-dev] Re: Minor windows intaller bug and a question

[Tres Seaver]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 11:39, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 
>>From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism at plope.com>
>>
>>>The old installer didn't create an instance home, it just created a
>>>software home.  The software home is still put into program files by the
>>>new installer.
>>
>>Ah. Well, I'm not sure I think C:\ is such a good place for the default
>>anyway. I'll test things out and think about it, and maybe it get's
>>magically changed before 2.8. ;-)
> 
> 
> Do you mean that you don't think C:\Zope-Instance is a good default for
> an instance home?  If so, I suppose I'd agree.  But I chose it because I
> couldn't (and still can't) think of anything better.  As Tim said, we
> could figure out the "application data" path, but as far as I can tell
> no one really uses that or expects to actually find anything there, and
> it's typically so verbose with so many path elements with spaces in them
> that it would be painful to specify from the console, which for better
> or worse, still needs to be used from time to time.

Heh, we could just avoid the whole problem by using a 
WindowsRegistryStorage for the database :)

Tres.
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