[Mono-dev] Patch for environment specific location for .mono folder

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

  The relevant code in aot-runtime.c is just some experimental code, its not
used by anyone, so you can ignore it.

                          Zoltan

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Tom Philpot <tom.philpot at logos.com> wrote:

> After digging a little bit further, it seems there are more issues with
> this patch:
>
> First, the AOT-Runtimes assumes that .mono is under g_get_home_dir()
>
> Secondly, System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal returns internalGetHome
> which is g_get_home_dir()
>
> Does it make sense to change this to a MONO_USER_HOME environment variable
> that takes precedence over g_get_home_dir(), and then update references to
> g_get_home_dir() to check MONO_USER_HOME first?
>
> This would be really useful for use, and possibly others I'd expect.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 1, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Tom Philpot wrote:
>
> > Attached is a patch that allows the user (or an embedded application) to
> set MONO_USER_CONFIG to specify a directory location for the .mono folder,
> similar to the MONO_CONFIG environment variable for mono configuration
> folder.
> >
> > We have an app which embeds Mono and we'd like to be certain that other
> Mono apps won't be tinkering with our configuration. This also allows us to
> make sure that the .mono folder can be created/updated as certain users
> don't have write access to their home folder, but do have access to
> sub-folders. We'd prefer not to have to ask for elevated permissions just to
> create a hidden config folder. Finally, this allows our application not to
> scatter configuration information throughout the file system as we can put
> all our configuration under an application specific folder.
> >
> > This patch is MIT/X11 licensed.
> >
> >
> > Index: mono-config.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- mono-config.c     (revision 158291)
> > +++ mono-config.c     (working copy)
> > @@ -560,7 +560,9 @@
> >       g_free (mono_cfg);
> >
> > #ifndef TARGET_WIN32
> > -     home = g_get_home_dir ();
> > +     home = g_getenv ("MONO_USER_CONFIG");
> > +     if (home == NULL)
> > +             home = g_get_home_dir ();
> >       user_cfg = g_strconcat (home, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, ".mono/config",
> NULL);
> >       mono_config_parse_file (user_cfg);
> >       g_free (user_cfg);
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
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