mctools.mc v2.6b10 posted

[Klaus Major]

Hi Robert,

>> The general consensus has been that we should not be afraid to  
>> break with versions more than a year old, and at the time it  
>> seemed I was the only one who liked the ...
>> ...
>> The only other change outstanding at the moment is the proposal to  
>> move the storage of pres out of the Home stack and into the  
>> Preferences folder on Mac, Application Data on Windows, and a  
>> mcPrefs.mc file in the program folder for UNIX/Linux.
>>
>> The benefit to doing this is that it begins to free us from being  
>> bound to the Home stack, which we know will need to be replaced at  
>> some point down the road, and allows options like FlipsIDE to  
>> retain prefs when flipping into MC from Rev.
>>
>> If this idea remains attractive to the community it might be nice  
>> to include it in v2.6 because at that point we have no firm  
>> enhancements planned, making it a more complete baseline build  
>> that we can stick with for a while.
>>
>> If there are no objections to doing this in this version I could  
>> incorporate that into B11 for your review.
>>
> I concur that it might be a good time to move prefs out. It has to  
> happen sooner or later.
> I haven't had time to check b9 but I thought this was one of the  
> changes added already by Klaus.

No, sorry, did not find the time to make that...

> Robert

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de