[Devel] Updated FHS

Stefano D'Angelo zanga.mail at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 02:45:57 PST 2012


2012/2/2 Krzysztof Foltman <wdev at foltman.com>:
> On 02/02/12 00:38, David Robillard wrote:
>
>> What about APPDATA? It seems that is application specific like
>> PROGRAMFILES, but I can't find any documentation for a user-specific
>> equivalent of APPDATA.  There's some references around to COMMONAPPDATA,
>> but I can't find any actual documentation for such a variable...
>
>
> Isn't APPDATA user-specific in itself? I mean, it usually expands to
> something like C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data (or a
> local equivalent).

APPDATA is user-spefic but also application-specific, Dave probably
meant user-specific but shared among applications (i.e., like
COMMONPROGRAMFILES but user-specific).

Stefano



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