This is already possible to have a shared directory for all the *.mcz of your images.
On 6/24/16, Javier Pimás <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know for the new directories, but I always thought that it would be > nice to have package-cache in ~/.pharo or a place shared by all images, to > avoid redownloading all .MCZs from other projects each time you launch > pharo from a different directory. > > Cheers! > Pocho > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:22 PM, 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 >> > > > > -- > Javier Pimás > Ciudad de Buenos Aires > -- Serge Stinckwich UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC) Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/
