On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:35:52PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > 
> > OTOH, a config file would be nice, indeed. How about "/etc/squeakrc", 
> > overridable by a "$(HOME)/.squeakrc"? Or, do we want to have a 
> > "$(HOME)/.squeak/" directory?
> 
> For consistency, it would be "/etc/squeak.conf", overridable
> by "$(HOME)/.squeakrc". 

Consistency with what, exactly? ;-)

But yes, I agree.

> Unfortunately, a small amount of VM support would be needed, as Squeak
> does not currently know the location of the $(HOME) directory. This
> could be added in the form of one new primitive (primitiveUserHomePath).
> If the primitive was not there, then primUserHomeHomePath would answer
> the Squeak home as a default (FileDirectory default pathName). This
> would be sufficient to permit everything else to be implemented in
> Smalltalk, hopefully in a way that works well for non-Unix platforms
> also.

Actually, I was talking about a VM config file - not accessible from the
image.  The Windows VM has something similar to store VM preferences (like
mouse button mapping etc).

-- Bert