[Merkaartor] Using XDG-compliant directories for tile cache, config, etc

Toby Speight T.M.Speight.90 at cantab.net
Tue Apr 27 11:24:46 BST 2010


0> In article <201004270100.02144.lists at samat.org>,
0> Samat K. Jain <URL:mailto:lists at samat.org> ("Samat") wrote:

Samat> Would ~/.cache/merkaartor/ be a better location? On that
Samat> note, why not also move configuration from ~/.merkaartor/ to
Samat> ~/.config/merkaartor/?
Samat>
Samat> Such directories are recommended by the XDG basedir spec:
Samat>
Samat>   http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html


0> In article <o2h7ec79eed1004270122x146b9cabr6f946ded00a9e251 at mail.gmail.com>,
0> Chris Browet <URL:mailto:cbro at semperpax.com> ("Chris") wrote:

Chris> Please note that you can change the location of the tile cache in
Chris> the preferences...
Chris>
Chris> Feedback requested for the default and the config location.... I
Chris> really dont' mind/care.


Samat's locations are probably to be preferred, though I don't hold
strong opinions.  What is important is that if the default location is
changed, then existing users should not lose their settings or their
cache - whether that's by migration, or by preserving the current
location, doesn't really matter.  Either way, it would mean adding
code that needs to work, so the benefit needs to be shown to outweigh
that.




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