in reply to platform independent naming of configuration files

The windows convention would be to store it in the registry.

  1. Per user config under HKEY_CURRENT_USER
  2. Per machine config under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  3. And anything not tied to either of those under HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

Done properly, it allows the user to log on on any machine in the domain, or even a different domain with appropriate privaledges, and have their configuration follow them automatically.

Configuration is so platform dependant, and the way fo achieving it so vaiable between platforms, and good cross-platform configuration module would account for these differences under the covers.

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