--- On Thu, 4/9/09, K. K. Subramaniam <subb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: K. K. Subramaniam <subb...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Newbies] Setting up squeak on Ubuntu
> To: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 12:40 AM
> On Thursday 09 April 2009 8:39:42 am Jerome Peace wrote:
> > Its not obvious where things will be stored when
> saved. So far text from
> > saved workspaces turn up as files in the directories
> of the original image
> > not the links.
> Unix Squeak saves files in $SQUEAK_USERDIR. It defaults to
> the folder "My
> Squeak/" (ugh!) in the image folder.
>
> In the launcher change the command to:
> SQUEAK_USERDIR=/save/files/here squeak /path/to/image
>
> > It seems to me when squeak saves something it should
> at least report back
> > what it saved where.
> You can get this path in Squeak using "FileDirectory
> default".
Thanks that's useful to know.
That is not the same thing as what I was asking for. When squeak saves a file,
the user deserves to have at minimum the name the file was saved under
including tacked on version numbers and prefixes. And the name of the directory
it is saved in. An unambiguous name.
Given enough knowledge I can go after squeak to get this info. But that is not
the point. Squeak is silent about these things when it saves stuff. So if I
have asked it to make a mistake I will never know until its much much later.
Not really acceptable. It should just tell me by way of confirmation. Then if I
goofed, I have a chance to correct it before too much follow on mischief.
The most often encountered slip is to save a change set or a project in a new
directory or a directory from which all other change sets of the same name have
been removed. You get a Changeset.1.cs which you probably already have
somewhere. This is not what you want but how do you know that's what you got?
This is a desired user story. I would like to see squeak work that way. I
believe its worth working for.
Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace
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