Yes, we are going to provide possibility to configure the directory where the caches and configs are stored. Best regards, Eugene Zhuravlev IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com/ "Develop with pleasure!"
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonas Kvarnstr�m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:55 PM Subject: [Eap-list] Directories for user-writable files > Why does IDEA store the files related to a specific user in its > installation directory? This means that a separate installation is > required for each user, rather than having a single global installation > as I'm used to on a Unix system. > > It would be great if the config files, the system cache and any other > user-writable files could be moved out of the installation directory, so > that there could be a global write-protected installation directory. To > make it easier to implement this feature the user-writable directory > could be specified by a system property, and the default could be the > installation directory so that those who are not interested in the > feature would not have to do anything special to make IDEA work just > like it does now. Then I could just edit idea.sh to specify > -Didea.user.directory=$HOME/idea/ or something like that. > > This would save disk space (although of course IDEA is quite small > compared to many other modern programs), and more importantly it would > be easier to upgrade IDEA to a new version globally rather than having > to install a new version for every single user. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
