On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Igor de Oliveira Couto <i...@semperuna.com> wrote:
> 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. Yes, this occurred to me as well, since I also use an OS (Haiku) that specifies where certain files go ideally. I had thought of providing a patch so the .fossil ends up in a given user's settings directory, but didn't get around to doing it, as I admit it slipped my mind until now. :) > 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... Yes, in Haiku, settings should live in the B_USER_SETTINGS_DIRECTORY (basically, you check against this macro and see what the system gives you back). That said, it happily works fine in ~ as Fossil does now. I suppose it's not the "correct" way of doing things though, even if it works fine and I doubt many or any people would notice. > 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? Yes, I suppose it could be done, but as Stephan mentioned, it may be a pain to keep this maintained as platforms may decide to change the settings directories around, for example. I know on Haiku we have done this more than once, but well, we are still an immature platform, so that is to be expected. I don't expect such things on mature platforms. If it were decided to add in the preferred settings directories for additional platforms, I would gladly provide a patch for Haiku. I don't know anything about OS X though, personally, so I can't help there. - joe _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
