Re: [xmlvm-users] .cache directory

[Panayotis K. <pan...@pa...>]

On Feb 22, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Sascha Haeberling wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Panayotis Katsaloulis <pan...@pa...> wrote:
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> On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Sascha Haeberling wrote:
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>> I don't think it should be in the build directory. When you start xmlvm e.g. from eclipse then there is no build directory. It should be created from wherever you run xmlvm.
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> Although in general I understand the reason for being hidden, I believe that there should be a way to make it "visible" to the user.
> At a minimum I believe that this folder should not be hidden, so that the user might understand what is happening.
> If this is not elegant enough, we can make other optimizations, like produce in the tmp folder, or specify a target directory where all possible temporary/intermediate files could be stored.
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> What do you think?
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> Well, it's not really hidden. It's just that some operating system or file browsers decide to hide files and folders that start with a dot :)
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> I think it's fine the way it is. The purpose of this directory is that normal XMLVM users don't have to worry about it at all. Naming it .cache is a convention I have seen in other tools as well.
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> Btw, you can also switch of caching, if you want to, using the --no-cache option with XMLVM. It can help in certain situation, e.g. if you make changes to the style sheet. Again, a normal user doesn't need to care about that flag at all.


I believe caching is fine, as long as it is not in my way.
Keeping it with the name ".cache" is a good naming convention of course, but there should be at least a way to redirect this to another location, probably with a command line argument ? or... use some other heuristics where to save it?

Keeping temporary garbage in the root tree of a project I don't think it is a good idea. There should be a way to redirect this (useful) garbage to a place which can be easily collected :)