On Oct 7, 2008, at 22:25 , Richard S. Hall wrote:
The change that I want to make is so that it is possible to start Felix without specifying any information, in which case it would default to creating a bundle cache directory (e.g., "felix-cache") in the current working directory.
I think this is a good change. Not having to enter any information when starting Felix is a big plus to me. In fact, during development, this is what we do most of the time (we use a script that supplies that information and creates a "cache" directory in the current directory).
For deployment, what we do is mostly dependent on the target platform (is it embedded, is it a desktop, is there a user present, etc..). That means most of the time we write a custom launcher.
This change seems simple enough, but then I started to wonder about the profile notion altogether. I wonder if people feel we should keep the profile notion or get rid of it. If we got rid of it, we could still have something similar.
I'd say, get rid of it, just allow the user to specify the cache directory, like you propose. That would be more than enough for me.
On the other hand, I don't think all of this is a big deal. If I had to choose, I'd say not having to enter anything when starting Felix is a bigger deal to me because that's a step that people who are "new" to Felix have to do (and they might not understand or care too much in a lot of scenarios).
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