"site.home" seems like a good description. My complaint about the "dspace.var" is that it's not at all clear what "var" refers to. Being a Linux guy, I understand that it is the equivalent of the Linux /var directory (http://www.linfo.org/var.html), but that would not be clear to a Windows or potentially even a Mac person.
So, we need a more generic name for this...something that does NOT assume you are familiar with the purpose of /var on Linux. That was all I was trying to say. In this way "site.home" or something more generic is much more descriptive than "dspace.var". - Tim On 7/24/2014 10:50 AM, Richard Rodgers wrote: > FWIW, I've always thought the whole 'dspace.dir' family of names a bit > confusing - is it the software, the installation or what? > > Which is why mds does the following: there is a dspace.cfg config property > called 'site.home' which is the root of the installation directory. > This - I think - more closely conforms with standard terminology. More > importantly, one can define an environment variable > MDS_SITE_HOME which will override that value at runtime. So it is easy to > inject different values for test, production, different servers, etc > all without rebuilding or touching any code. I think this is the kind of > separation the Mark W was looking for. > > Richard > On Jul 24, 2014, at 10:15 AM, helix84 wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Tim Donohue <tdono...@duraspace.org> wrote: >>> This seems reasonable to me. I just prefer "dspace.data.dir" (or >>> something similar, like "dspace.install.dir") to "dspace.var", as the >>> meaning of the latter may not make sense to some folks. >> >> Sorry to chime in on a naming issue that seems like bikeshading, but I >> don't agree that "data" is preferable to "var", as it doesn't say >> anything whather that "data" is read-only or writable, which is the >> distinction we're trying to make here. >> >> >> Regards, >> ~~helix84 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and >> search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck >> Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code >> search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds >> _______________________________________________ >> Dspace-devel mailing list >> Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
