</lurk> Let me get this straight, the leading dot (ie ".SVN") is just a trick to make it hidden on Linux/Unix right? Don't carry that onto windows, if you want it hidden on all platforms, use "." on the platforms where it is appropriate, and use the hidden attribute on windows, and so on for all supported platforms. The leading dot doesn't do anything but screw up Web projects in VStudio, which I agree is lame, but this is what I have to work with on a day to day basis.
I agree with whoever mentioned that just one folder in the root is good, having ".SVN" (or actually "_SVN" due to the hacked client) sprinkled all over my folders is annoying. And as long as the directory name is unlikely to collide with something already in place does it really matter what it's called (this would probably mean that rather short and generic names as 'MT' might be inappropriate, MT-Workspace perhaps, or something to that effect)? What shell doesn't have auto-complete nowadays anyway? :) As for configuration settings, follow the platform standard, AppData on windows, ~ on Linux, etc. Sure all of this requires more work, but there should already be an abstraction layer for platform quirks anyway right and your end users will be happier because your software respects their platform. /Patrik On 3/17/06, Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/14/06, Nathaniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, one issue that came up in the discussion last week about renaming > > the monotone executable was what to do with the bookkeeping directory: > > My order of preference: > > MTN > _MTN > _mtn > MT > .MTN > .mtn > Bamboo shoots under my fingernails > .MTN-bookkeeping > .MTN-`head -$RANDOM /usr/share/dict/words | tail -1` > > I vote against any -suffix name, due to its being annoying and taking > up too much horizontal space causing ls to be able to use only one or > two columns. > > I'd prefer to keep the existing name for ~/.monotone. > > Cheers! > Shaun > > _______________________________________________ > Monotone-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel > > > _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
