> On 23 Jun 2016, at 17:34, Max Leske <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I totally approve of the idea but personally I hate those hidden directories. 
> Especially those that are silently generated in my home directory. It may not 
> look so “professional” as Eclipse (…) but I’d rather have a visible directory.

names as… ? :P

Esteban


> 
> Just my two cents.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
>> On 23 Jun 2016, at 17:22, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> Since some time I’ve seen growing the amount of files/directories generated 
>> when running Pharo. Up to Pharo 2.0, we had just this: 
>> 
>> Pharo.image
>> Pharo.changes
>> PharoDebug.log
>> pharo-cache
>> 
>> now we have:
>> 
>> Pharo.image
>> Pharo.changes
>> PharoDebug.log
>> pharo-cache
>> epicea-sessions
>> play-cache
>> play-stash
>> 
>> it does not looks like much, but I think this does not looks professional 
>> (we take too much from user space). So I proposed (and implemented) a 
>> “concentrator” directory: 
>> 
>> Pharo.image
>> Pharo.changes
>> ./pharo
>>      … and everything for “pharo working internally” here
>> 
>> then users have again control about what they have along with the image 
>> (this allows to some nice strategies too, when we want a version that does 
>> not pollutes the file dir). 
>> 
>> of course, this idea follows other developing spaces, where things are 
>> stored in same fashion way… for example in eclipse for java they store all 
>> eclipse data under .workspace directory.
>> 
>> so, please note that this is NOT user space… regular pharo users will store 
>> his files along with the image, for instance filetree repositories… 
>> something like: 
>> 
>> Pharo.image
>> Pharo.changes
>> .pharo/
>> voyage/
>> punqlite/
>> etc.
>> 
>> well… I will commit a SLICE with the changes soon (is not a hard change at 
>> all). 
>> 
>> But then: 
>> 
>> is ./pharo a good name?
>> will this work?
>> 
>> Esteban
> 
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