On 09/19/2011 12:45 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > Thomas just told me that he's made a change for Extension Manager (apparently > there was a vote for it and I missed it - I can't find it so if anyone has > the link please point me to it) and that by default now the Extension Manager > uses the temporary directory to store installed extensions (Before it was > using ~/.xwiki).
Not a proper vote, but I think this is the mail Thomas is mentioning: http://markmail.org/message/mgjnjdw46rohdpbk > I thus want to throw my -1 to release 3.2 final with this (I'd also much > prefer if 3.2M3 doesn't have it as much as possible). The reason is that the > tmp/ directory can get wiped anytime and the user can thus suddenly loose all > its installed extensions. I believe we need a permanent location for that. > > We have 2 general options IMO: > > 1) Don't start xwiki if the work directory is not explicitly configured > 2) Make the default EM work directory be the same as before (ie ~/.xwiki), > when the work dir config property is not defined Personally I think that 2 doesn't really work. On a serious server installation there shouldn't be any ~ directory for the "user" running the server. ~tomcat is /dev/null on my system. Ideally, there should be a wizard at the start asking for this, in a mandatory step. But we're pretty far from having a proper first-run setup wizard. If I have to chose between these two, +1 for 1) > I also want to propose that for the standalone distribution of XE (the > jetty/hsqldb package) we use work/ as the work directory. We already create > this directory and we should use it (it's already used by our lucene indexing > BTW). +1 for this one. > WDYT? > -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
