On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Cyril Ferlicot D. <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 23/06/2016 à 17:22, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit :
> > 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?
> >
>
> +10000 for the reordering :)
>
> `pharo` is maybe a little too common.


Agreed.


> What about `pharo-local`?
>

Or pharodata...

cheers -ben

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