On Monday, June 9, 2014 6:45:43 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > Here's the thing. There is no reason to change the history format ever > again, so I'm kind of disinclined from doing this. That leaves people using > both 0.2 and 0.3 in a slightly awkward situation, but I don't know if that > warrants moving the history file under ~/.julia/vX.Y/ – that's not really > what that directory is for: it's configuration, not mutable state. > Consider, for example, if you're keeping your packages checked into a git > super-repo and now Julia starts putting it's history in there. That's no > good. You might want to have the package directory be read-only or shared > between many different users. Saving history in there is a no-go. That > probably means that saving the ~/.julia/.github/token file in there is also > bad. >
Makes sense. And I have a feeling that once 0.3 is released, there will be very minimal demand for maintaining packages for 0.2. I was just spit-balling.
