Hey Laszlo, I’m in between. I’m for it, do to removing old stuff automatically and getting the preferences from previous Version. But also I often read that someone says: please delete your user dir, if someone encountered a problem. So there we can see smth is not that stable as expected and needs further Investigation somehow.
On the other hand I would not use the old preferences automatically or as default, due to mentioned problems. When I install a newer version of IntelliJ they ask me, whether I want to uninstall the old version with the old settings or not. So after it, it seems, that the old settings are the default. So all in all, but with asking to use the old ones or not and not make it as default. Cheers Chris Von: Laszlo Kishalmi Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. April 2019 13:40 An: Apache NetBeans Betreff: NetBeans UserDir vs. Releases Dear all, I would like to ask your opinion about changing the user and cache-dir with every release. We have been pretty much compatible with our plugins and code since 8.2 and actually many of us are actually living on the edge using refreshed dev versions every now and then without any issue. So how do you think that having a non versioned user and cache-dir work out (like: "release" instead of "11.0" or "11.1")? I'm bringing this up for two + one reasons: 1. The user experience of the upgrades would be more seamless. 2. Avoid code change required to check the previous release folder. +1 Abandoned older user and cache dirs are just kept floating around. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
