Persistent local preferences for native builds

[mikeal]

I need to standardize, build, and use a local_settings.py for each platform.

[mikeal]

The first part of this just getting a local profile on each platform, so I'm giving this to bear.

[bear]

commited in revision 289 conf/local_settings.py that defines two helper functions:

locateSettings(dirname=None) loadSettings(dirname=None, filename='prefs.py')

[bear]

patch to make conf/init.py a bit more flexible and not key-case sensitive

[mikeal]

Bear's patch was committed in r290.

We now either need an API for jacob that will write changes/addition back to the local prefs file, or jacob can try just parsing and writing to the file himself.

I think bear mentioned that he had an cool idea about how to do this tho, so we'll wait for his comments.

[mikeal]

Bear is going to provide an API for writing the prefs back to the file.

Then bounce the ticket back to mean and I can write a public RPC method for it.

[mikeal]

The rest of this work is actually encapsulated in the "IDE doesn't persist local prefs" work.