---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lars Bergstrom" <larsb...@mozilla.com> Date: Dec 17, 2015 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [dev-servo] Fwd: Profile directory (Re: IndexDB project) To: "Josh Matthews" <j...@joshmatthews.net> Cc:
How do you see this (profile stuff) in relation to startup caches? I need to implement one really badly for Android font loading (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623136 for similar gecko code) so that our first page load isn't so miserable. I'm happy to put it anywhere, but know that this stuff has a tendency to stick around... if I hadn't seen your thread, I probably would've just put it in a "reasonable" place in the Android app folder. :-) On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Josh Matthews <j...@joshmatthews.net> wrote: > 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: >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> 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. >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-servo mailing list > dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
