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Comment by codedokode

3 years ago

I meant use the name of the program that embeds SQLite, for example, McAfee, Google Chrome etc. This way the user could easily understand which program has created the files.

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djbusby  3 years ago

How does it get that in a cross platform way? Or want if the program name has exotic characters?

  • codedokode  3 years ago

    I think that in 2023 every decent OS should provide a method to get executable name. And every decent filesystem supports exotic characters.

arp242  3 years ago

Why spend time and effort on all of that when applications can just configure it themselves if they want to?

  • yjftsjthsd-h  3 years ago

    If it were possible to determine the program name in a way that was portable and not too painful, it would be a nice feature for the library to automatically set a better default, both to save work for devs using it and to save sqlite devs the hassle of their library getting blamed for things that aren't its fault. Now, I don't think those conditions are likely to be met, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice if it were practical.