DL Neil wrote: > On 29/01/19 1:29 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote: >> >>>> What about running a multi-tenant application (for multiple users who >>>> are not also system-users) - cf them logging-on to run their own. It is >>>> appropriate, possibly even "required" to keep Fred's config file, >>>> reports, graphs, logs, etc; separate from Barney's. Ideally they will >>>> not be sub-dirs of the application/package. >>> >>> if it is per user defined then $HOME/.config/<app-name>, >>> $HOME/.local/share/<app-name> and any temporary data can go >>> in $HOME/.cache/<app-name> will do it for posix on Windows >>> there is the per user app stuff which i haven't sorted out >>> yet. >>> >>> $HOME changes per user login name change. >> >> $HOME/.config/<app-name>/<app-user>/ >> $HOME/.cache/<app-name>/<app-user>/ > > > +1 > > The latter for tmp/intermediate files (without hassles, eg creating > unique fileNMs!). - and which can be wiped with a single command at the > end of the run! > > The former for 'valuable stuff'. With the opportunity, to separate > output presentations and inputs using sub-dirs! > > (noticed in one such implementation, the need to separate different > 'runs' of the same app, by the same client, using alternate hypotheses - > that required another 'layer' of sub-dirs!) > > Thanks!
oh, well i don't need anything that complicated but usually there is a way of generating unique file names and managing temporary files. if you are running an application by a login user which does not log out then eventually you may need to use some other method of cleaning up the application's files somehow but to me that is a whole different topic from the issue of where to put them. songbird -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
