On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > 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.
Hudson/Jenkins do it like this and it has worked for a lot of people. Remember that we're talking about a default directory. IMO 2) is better till we have the wizard yo mention. We need to make it easy and as smooth as possible to use XE (remember that lots of people won't go further in their evaluation of it if they cannot install it). Personally I'm slightly in favor of 2) ATM till we have the wizard. Thanks -Vincent > 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
