Richard S. Hall wrote:
Hello,
Small detail question:
Oscar 1.0.x stores bundle "profiles" (different sets of installed
bundles) by default into the "~/.oscar" directory. When I started
playing with Oscar 2.0, I changed the default to "~/.noscar" (for New
Oscar) so that I wouldn't interfere with the existing profile
directory, since 2.0 could not originally install R3 bundles and 1.0.x
cannot install R4 bundles. My eventual goal was to put the default
back to "~/.oscar" once 2.0 stablized, since 2.0 is [now] capable of
installing R3 bundles and reading 1.0.x profiles.
Now I am trying to organize the source for svn and I am wondering
whether I should keep this as a temporary name or if I should just
chose a permanent one. It doesn't seem right to change it to
"~/.oscar" yet, since it is still alpha. But it might confuse people
if we choose a temporary name now and change it later. One possibility
is to just choose a different, separate default name, e.g.,
"~/.oscar-r4" and just use a separate profile directory from 1.0.x
from now on.
I am sort of leaning toward this latter solution, anyone have any
opinion on this matter at all?
Using a different name sounds good, as it will avoid for sure mixing of
files between incompatible versions. Now it may be better to use Oscar's
version number rather than the spec's revision as incompatibilities are
more related to oscar itself than to the spec.
So what about ~/.oscar-2?
Sylvain
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