On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 7:40 AM Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 That's great, but only until somebody breaks something, which you typically don't know until a lot of users have had a bad experience. Keeping the cache dir seems reasonable - the developer should be expected to change subdir names if the data format is changed incompatibly. But for the userdir, if a new version has written incompatible data, you've closed off any way to downgrade to the previous version. That's not okay. -Tim > e dirs are just kept floating around. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > -- http://timboudreau.com
