Re: [xmlvm-users] .cache directory

[Sascha H. <sa...@gm...>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Panayotis Katsaloulis <
pan...@pa...> wrote:

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> 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 :)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
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> 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 :)
>

That does make sense, if you want to have it somewhere else. I think .cache
is already on the .svn ignore list, if not it should be. So you cannot
accidentally submit it.

Apart from that feel free to send me a change for review which lets you
specify the cache directory location.


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