Hi,

Richard S. Hall schrieb:
> 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.

Sounds usefull.

I just recently used the Felix launcher again (having forgot about all
that stuff because I always used the Sling launcher) and was trapped
into finding, where the actual stuff would be going ... Well I found
out, but ... ;-)

> 
> 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.
> 
> For example, we could modify the launcher to ask for a cache directory,
> instead of a profile name. The resulting behavior would be something like:
> 
>   1. If the user just hits return (i.e., doesn't specify anything) then
>      the default "felix-cache" directory is created/used in the current
>      working directory.
>   2. If the user types a simple name (e.g., "mycache") then a
>      corresponding directory is created/used in the current working
>      directory.
>   3. If the user types an absolute directory name, then that directory
>      is used/created for the bundle cache.

Agreed, except that I would not prompt for entry but either interpret a
special argument to the launcher or a environment variable or so...

Regards
Felix

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