> Hello, > > Here is a patch with some small changes to the egg cache dir handling > code, mostly to make it more robust when the cache directory or any of > its parents don't exist. > > I've removed the use of /tmp for the egg cache when a user's $HOME can't > be determined. My thinking here is that, since the cache is meant to be > relatively persistent (otherwise, there's not much point), it doesn't > make sense to put it in a location that's specifically non-persistent. > You don't want the cache to be blown away on reboot, for example, so > it's better put it directly in the CWD rather than /tmp if we can't use > the user's $HOME. This will be a very rare case, anyway. > > I have also made the cache a subdirectory under ~/.chicken-install, so > that we can use ~/.chicken-install for other egg-related purposes in the > future without introducing more dotfiles in the user's home. >
Thanks, pushed. felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
