Cross-platform configuration, options, settings, preferences, defaults
问题 I'm interested in peoples' views on how best to store preferences and default settings in cross-platform applications. I primarily work in node.js and Perl on *nix and Windows but I'm also interested in the bigger picture. In the *nix world "dotfiles" (and directories) are very common with system-wide or application default settings generally residing in one path and user-specific settings in the home directory. Such files and dirs begin with a dot "." and are hidden by default from directory