Right, I know there are expected conventions. My previous suggestion was
an attempt to provide a mechanism to allow testing persistence between
sessions without actually committing to any of the work involved in
creating a proper setup for persistent profiles. That feels like a
distraction to me, at the moment, and we could spend the time on more
interesting things.
On 2015-12-17 11:07 AM, Josh Matthews wrote:
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From: "Simon Sapin" <simon.sa...@exyr.org>
Date: Dec 17, 2015 11:06 AM
Subject: Profile directory (Re: [dev-servo] IndexDB project)
To: "Josh Matthews" <j...@joshmatthews.net>
Cc:
On 17/12/15 14:43, Josh Matthews wrote:
We still don't have any persistent storage in Servo, such as a profile
folder. I would be fine with adding a command line option to provide a
profile directory, or creating a temporary directory if none is provided.
At least on Linux, there are conventions of where things like a profile
directory should go:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
Different types of things (config, cache, user data, …), each with a
default location like $HOME/.config and an environment variable to override
them (so a command-line argument may not be necessary)
And there’s a Rust implementation that does the environment variable
lookup, fallbacks, creates directories as needed, etc:
https://crates.io/crates/xdg/
https://whitequark.github.io/rust-xdg/xdg/struct.BaseDirectories.html
I don’t know about other platforms’ conventions, but this can be a start.
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