+1 -Corey O'Connor coreyocon...@gmail.com http://corebotllc.com/
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Michał J Gajda <mjga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Fellow Developers, > > Should we move to using XDG-standard directories for Yi, or rather stay > with current approach of using ~/.yi for everything except for Dyre (which > already uses XDG). > Depending on consensus I may also make a patch, that will use XDG-style > directories, except that it looks for ~/.yi/yi.hs if ~/.config/yi/yi.hs is > not found. > > *ethercrow <https://github.com/ethercrow>* > *commented<https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/pull/34#issuecomment-7298059> > * > > *a day ago <https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/pull/34#issuecomment-7298059>* > > Wow, that's a lot! :) > > I'll test later and right now I wonder why store history in ~/.yi/history > and not in ~/.cache/yi/history? ~/.cache/yi directory already exists and > seems a logical place for history file. > > *mgajda <https://github.com/mgajda>* > *commented<https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/pull/34#issuecomment-7298814> > * > > *a day ago <https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/pull/34#issuecomment-7298814>* > > Because now we use old-style per-application directory that provides both > config and cache: System.Directory.getUserAppDataDir "yi" [from package > "directory".] > > If there is consensus, that we move to new-style XDG directories, then yes: > ~/.yi/yi.hs -> ~/.config/yi/yi.hs > ~/.yi/history -> ~/.cache/yi/history > > That would be separate patch though (and a dependency on xdg-basedir > package instead.) May be good idea, since xdg-basedir functions should also > work on Windows and Mac. > > Let me know if there is a consensus about this being good idea :-). > -- > Best regards > Michal > > -- > Yi development mailing list > yi-devel@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -- Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel
