[Telepathy] [Bug 19462] New: Search path on Windows for .manager files

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19462

           Summary: Search path on Windows for .manager files
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Windows (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: telepathy-glib
        AssignedTo: telepathy at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: sunil at synovel.com


On Windows, telepathy-glib searches for .manager files in not so favorable
locations. A typical application like Spicebird would like to ship an
installer/zip that would sit in a directory containing all the data files and
telepathy library dlls. There should be a way for .data files to be found by
tp-glib.

Usually, Free Software ported from Unix like environments to Windows seem to do
this by getting the current dll path and then appending to it "share/APP/DATA".
This would be an ifdefed windows code.

I was wondering if we can have a way to add an additional search path to
tp-glib. This would be helpful for Spicebird like apps that ship as a tarball
(like Firefox) on Unixes and would look for tp-glib to pick up data files from
extracted directory.


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