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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 October 2011 10:41, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:19:45AM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:58:54AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> > On 24 October 2011 09:38, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> On 24 Oct 2011, at 08:25, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>> > >> > revno: 6372
>> > >> > committer: Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > >> > branch nick: work
>> > >> > timestamp: Mon 2011-10-24 09:23:52 +0200
>> > >> > message:
>> > >> >  Change search path of parameter file to ~/.fenics/dolfin_parameters.xml
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> Is this platform independent?
>> > >
>> > > Yes, at least as far as this is working:
>> > >
>> > > #ifdef _WIN32
>> > >  std::string home_directory(std::getenv("USERPROFILE"));
>> > >  parameter_files.push_back(home_directory + "\\.fenics\\dolfin_parameters.xml");
>> > >  parameter_files.push_back(home_directory + "\\.fenics\\dolfin_parameters.xml.gz");
>> > > #else
>> > >  std::string home_directory(std::getenv("HOME"));
>> > >  parameter_files.push_back(home_directory + "/.fenics/dolfin_parameters.xml");
>> > >  parameter_files.push_back(home_directory + "/.fenics/dolfin_parameters.xml.gz");
>> > > #endif
>> > >
>> > >> I would suggest using
>> > >>
>> > >>   ~/.local/fenics
>> > >
>> > > What is ~/.local? It doesn't seem to be a standard place to store
>> > > config files. Another option is ~/.config which seems to be populated
>> > > with config files from quite a few applications.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Yes, .config would be better.
>> >
>> > I find programs that fill $HOME with hidden files and directories annoying.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Does anyone know if .config is the recommended place to store config
>> files these days?
>
> This looks relevant:
>
>  http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>
> According to this, we should have something like
>
>  ~/.config/fenics/dolfin_parameters.xml
>  ~/.local/share/fenics/cache
>
> I'll change the first of these in DOLFIN. Then someone else might want
> to think about this for Instant.
>

I've created a bug report for Instant

   https://bugs.launchpad.net/instant/+bug/880758

Looks to me like it should be

  ~/.cache/foo

Garth

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> Anders
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