Well-known AG configuration directories

[Robert Olson]

Argh, eudora went and sent this without me finishing it. Disregard this and 
wait for the finished one :-).

At 12:04 PM 3/7/2003 -0600, Robert Olson wrote:
>I'd like to have the AG system define the following configuration 
>directories. I realize this is being done now, but these go toward 
>documenting & codifying current practice (and providing standard names).
>
>Per-user configuration. This will hold things like the user profile, 
>defaults, and a user's certificate repository.
>
>Defaults:
>Linux: $HOME/.AccessGrid
>Windows has the notion of an Application Data directory. This can be 
>retrieved programmatically thusly:
>
>from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
>
>appData = shell.SHGetFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_APPDATA, 0, 0)
>
>Per-machine configuration.