Re: Base text files, re: IRC chat

Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 at 15:27 +0200:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:35:17AM +0200, Bert Huijben wrote:
> > I really wouldn't recommend using (2) as the Windows default. In many
> > corporate environments ~/ is in the roaming user profile. (Automatically
> > locally cached and sometimes automatically merged when a user logs on onto
> > different machines at the same time). And in most of these cases the size of
> > the roaming profiles is pretty limited (100 MB max at one of our largest
> > customers)
>
> This is a good point.
>
> Do we want defaults to differ between platforms?

Not unless we have to. And I'm not sure we want them to differ here.

> Because on *nix, with the concept of $HOME, (2) makes a lot of sense.

Well, Windows also has that concept, %USERPROFILE%. And having quotas
on it isn't a limitation unique to Windows :)

In Bert's case, these people have working copies somewhere, and what we
want is to store the metadata there rather than at the %USERPROFILE%,
right? Wouldn't setting --config-dir (via env var?) to a path sibling to
the working copies achieve that effect as well?

Daniel

(do we already allow setting --config-dir by an env var?)

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Received on 2008-09-16 15:50:43 CEST