---------- 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. -- Simon Sapin _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
