[haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:30:21 +0100
"Christoph .J Thompson" <cjsthompson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I noticed in the commits that Axel was reorganizing the location of
> config
> and data files which is a really good thing. This reminded me of an
> effort
> ongoing in the Linux world to separate the configuration, data and
> cache
> data of applications:
>
> http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders
>
I haven't seen that yet, but it's surely an appreciated step. If
application will follow this, porting them to Haiku properly will be
easier, too.
> I thought I'd bring this to the attention of the Haiku developers as
> it might be
> also interresting for Haiku.
>
> I know about find_directory(), but I don't know if there is already a
> "B_USER_CACHE". That might be useful for Ryan Leavengood's web browser
> amongst other things.
We have directories for settings, data, and cache already (cache for
user only, the other two for both, the user and common).
Bye,
Axel.
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- » [haiku-development] Separation of application configuration, data and cache- Christoph .J Thompson
- » [haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache- François Revol
- » [haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache - Axel Dörfler
- » [haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache- scott mc
- » [haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache- Christoph .J Thompson
- » [haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache- PulkoMandy
- » [haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache- François Revol
- » [haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache- Christoph .J Thompson
- » [haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache- Axel Dörfler
- » [haiku-development] Re: Separation of application configuration, data and cache- scott mc