Interesting things about those LINQPad/JPad scenarios. Was not aware
of it. Still some doubts about applicability. It seems to me that JPad
having work dir in "Program Files" have a lot of problems by itself,
e.g. a user is not able to run basic file IO snippets with relative
file paths.

чт, 3 окт. 2019 г. в 23:24, Pavel Tupitsyn <ptupit...@apache.org>:
>
> Ilya, fallback is a good idea.
> Still I'd prefer to have user.home as a default, and fallback to user.dir
> when home does not work for some reason.
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 11:07 PM Ilya Kasnacheev <ilya.kasnach...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > We can try and fallback to home dir with warning, when file cannot be
> > created in current dir.
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Ilya Kasnacheev
> >
> >
> > чт, 3 окт. 2019 г. в 20:05, Pavel Tupitsyn <ptupit...@apache.org>:
> >
> > > >  Cannot tell about NuGet. Maven is typically used during development,
> > > usually there is no Maven in production deployments.
> > > NuGet and Maven are very similar. Yes, both of them are build-time tools,
> > > production is unrelated.
> > > For production-ready deployments we can expect users to tweak Ignite to
> > > their needs, set custom storage dirs, adjust heap sizes and so on.
> > >
> > > I'm talking about new users, about "getting started" scenarios -
> > > it is super important to make Ignite easy to get started with, provide
> > > reasonable defaults for all the configuration properties.
> > >
> > > For Ignite.NET, LINQPad is one of those "get started in 2 clicks"
> > > scenarios. And this scenario got broken as explained above.
> > > 2.7.5 and earlier used temp dir, which worked. 2.7.6 fails: "Work
> > directory
> > > does not exist and cannot be created: C:\Program
> > > Files\LINQPad5\ignite\work"
> > >
> > > For Java there is JPad, which will fail in the same way - when you run
> > code
> > > from there, `user.dir` points to Program Files.
> > >
> > > I expect that there are more use cases like this, and `user.home` is a
> > > reasonable solution.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 5:56 PM Ilya Kasnacheev <
> > ilya.kasnach...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > I want to point out that I didn't change this location (current dir).
> > It
> > > > was already implemented when I raised this issue, the only change I did
> > > was
> > > > to swap current dir/work to current dir/ignite/work to avoid confusion
> > > > whose work dir that is.
> > > >
> > > > I also communicated this to you all in ML when I discovered that
> > current
> > > > dir is used.
> > > >
> > > > I think that current dir is actually *well defined* when starting a
> > > > project. A project is expected to be started from the same dir, and all
> > > > "Run..." dialogs usually allow specifying that one.
> > > >
> > > > For embedded scenarios, you definitely not want work dir from two
> > > different
> > > > Ignite-using tools to interfere. For embedded scenarios, you should
> > only
> > > > expect that current dir is writable.
> > > >
> > > > Even after these considerations, it's too late to change that because
> > > > people don't expect this dir to move with every release of Ignite, and
> > we
> > > > already did it once.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > --
> > > > Ilya Kasnacheev
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > чт, 3 окт. 2019 г. в 17:34, Alexey Goncharuk <
> > alexey.goncha...@gmail.com
> > > >:
> > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Seems, we should have different defaults and even distributions for
> > > > > > different usage scenarios.
> > > > > >
> > > > > I still do not understand why defaults should be different for
> > embedded
> > > > and
> > > > > "traditional RDBMS-like" installations. Having different defaults
> > will
> > > > > likely confuse users, not make usability easier. Personally, I would
> > > > forbid
> > > > > to start Ignite if IGNITE_HOME is not set, but this suggestion was
> > not
> > > > > accepted by the community.
> > > > >
> > > > > As far as I know, both rocksdb and SQLite is local only libraries and
> > > > don't
> > > > > > have any distrubted features.
> > > > >
> > > > > See no difference here. Imagine a user starts only one Ignite node
> > for
> > > > > development or just to play (which, I believe, happes quite a lot) -
> > > same
> > > > > as with local databases. BTW, it is impossible to start SQLite
> > without
> > > > > database path, so a user either provides a full path, or a relative
> > > path
> > > > > from the current directory - which is an explicit action from a user.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I agree with you.
> > > > > > How it happens, that after wide discussion we implemented, reviewed
> > > and
> > > > > > merged wrong defaults?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As I know, we have explicit release only to change this default.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This release is broken, isn't it?
> > > > > >
> > > > > I think this is just a miscommunication. Ilya made a fix which was
> > > > exactly
> > > > > what he meant it to be. As for the release - it may have worse
> > > usability,
> > > > > but not more 'broken' as the previous one with the temp directory. At
> > > > least
> > > > > the data will not be physically removed after the machine restart.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >



-- 
Best regards,
Ivan Pavlukhin

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