On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:41 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Martin Mokrejs
> <mmokr...@fold.natur.cuni.cz> wrote:
>
> > Hmm. Could it be by default the current working directory instead? Or,
> try/else added to the code
> > which would try to write into cwd if $HOME (aka $MPLCONFIGDIR) returns
> an error?
>
> The stuff we store there is meant to be persistent between runs,
> primarily a cache of all the fonts we find on your system. So
> defaulting to the current working directory is not a good idea because
> then we would have configs littered across the filesystem and would
> not be able to take advantage of the information gleaned from previous
> runs from other directories.
>
> JDH
>
>
However, should it be a full-out error? Is it possible to have mpl run
without a font cache?
Just a thought.
Ben Root
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