Dear Fossil Gurus, I'm a new user - have been using Fossil for just over a month now - and I'm loving it. One point that I found somewhat disappointing, is that Fossil creates a ".fossil" database in my home directory.
I know that many applications in Linux/Unix store their preferences and settings in dot-files, in the user's home directory - ie., "~/.myapp". This, however, is a Linux standard, and does not translate to other platforms. Windows has appropriate directories where applications are supposed to store preferences, and so does the MacOS. The Apple guidelines are quite specific as to where applications should store their temporary, support and preference files, and the system provides *several* places that developer should use (and apps that don't are not considered 'good citizens'). There are also guidelines for the *naming* of such support files on all platforms... I believe that it should not be too difficult to add a check in the Fossil code, so that the name and location of the ".fossil" would vary, depending on the platform it's running in. I was going to add that as a request ticket to the Fossil repo, but saw that it was recommended that we run this by the user-list first, to see whether this is something that has been previously discussed or not. Is there a reason why this should not be added as a feature request? Kind regards, -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia
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