Given a weewx-5.3 coming out eventually this might be a good time to talk through whether doing something would be helpful. Adding an item to 'where to find things' costs little other than a few lines in the markdown docs.
To me - this one is an edge case. It's not WEEWX_ROOT (core code) or USER_ROOT (user skins/extensions added to core) or HTML_ROOT (generated web pages) or SQLITE_ROOT (databases). There's not really a canonical place in the tree hierarchy for data a skin/extension needs to download and process and/or save across restarts. Does USER_DATA or USER_TMP or USER_VAR or WEEWX_TMP or the like make any sense ? I'm sure there are other unix fossils here with similar war stories to mine who'd have thoughts..... On Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 12:44:42 PM UTC-8 Tom Keffer wrote: > We could rename it DATABASE_ROOT. 😀 > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM '[email protected]' via weewx-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The naming got my wondering because SQLITE_ROOT sounds sqlite exclusive >> to me. >> >> Tom Keffer schrieb am Sonntag, 30. November 2025 um 16:12:12 UTC+1: >> >>> Exactly right. SQLITE_ROOT is the right place. >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM Karen K <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> [email protected] schrieb am Sonntag, 30. November 2025 um 14:42:02 >>>> UTC+1: >>>> >>>> I've been wondering if it is really a good idea to put the ephemeris in >>>> WEEWX_ROOT/SQLITE_ROOT >>>> Since a "skyfield" subdirectory is created anyway, why not put it in >>>> WEEWX_ROOT/skyfield >>>> >>>> >>>> Skyfield data is dynamic data, and SQLITE_ROOT is dynamic data. >>>> WEEWX_ROOT may be a read-only directory. So I guess putting the Skyfield >>>> directory into WEEWX_ROOT would violate the directory structure of WeeWX. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> >>> To view this discussion visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3c6fad87-9858-42c3-a6a3-6cd6450fdf01n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3c6fad87-9858-42c3-a6a3-6cd6450fdf01n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b0f8e91c-f05a-423e-86f4-b0dd4d46f50fn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b0f8e91c-f05a-423e-86f4-b0dd4d46f50fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/56eb2f69-74a1-4a21-838c-33f6bc51a43en%40googlegroups.com.
