On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Derrell Lipman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:37 AM, thron7 <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> But what I take away from this suggestion is changing the way >> "create-application.py" works. How does everybody feel about something >> like the following: >> >> - create-application receives another CL option to specify the cache, >> like --cache <path>. >> - if not supplied the cache path will default to "TMPDIR/cache", as it >> is now. >> - the cache direcotry will be made explicit in the config.json in the >> CACHE macro. >> >> Additionally, we could add an interactive mode to create-application: >> - if run interactively create-application might prompt for an answer >> whether the cache should be "local"/"global", "local" meaning the >> "./cache" directory from the application root. >> - if "global" is chosen, it will prompt for a path to the cache >> directory, maybe offering some suggestions that can be picked from, >> with again "TMPDIR/cache" as the default, "QOOXDOO_PATH/cache" as >> another one, and maybe "~/.qooxdoo/cache" as yet another one on *ix >> systems. >> > > I like this idea of interactive mode a LOT. Also, an option to place the > cache in ~/.qooxdoo/cache is consistent with many Linux applications (e.g. > the mozilla cache goes in ~/.mozilla/somegarbagestring/cache).
But this is for per-user stuff, NOT for system-wide stuff. > I have one further request for create-application: have it read > ~/.qooxdoorc for default settings. The cache path could be provided in > there, as could options for "quiet" (the current -q) and "silent" (don't > ask the interactive questions described above; rather use defaults > provided here in .qooxdoorc, and if not found here, then in base.json). Yes, please! > There's some common place for the equivalent of "rc" (start-up > configuration) files on Windows too IIRC, but I don't remember where that > is. It'd be nice to have similar functionality on all platforms if possible. As long as it is not in the registry ... Cheers, Fritz -- Oetiker+Partner AG tel: +41 62 775 99 03 (direct) Fritz Zaucker +41 62 775 99 00 (switch board) Aarweg 15 +41 79 675 06 30 (mobile) CH-4600 Olten fax: +41 62 775 99 05 Schweiz web: www.oetiker.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
