FWIW, I've always thought the whole 'dspace.dir' family of names a bit confusing - is it the software, the installation or what?
Which is why mds does the following: there is a dspace.cfg config property called 'site.home' which is the root of the installation directory. This - I think - more closely conforms with standard terminology. More importantly, one can define an environment variable MDS_SITE_HOME which will override that value at runtime. So it is easy to inject different values for test, production, different servers, etc all without rebuilding or touching any code. I think this is the kind of separation the Mark W was looking for. Richard On Jul 24, 2014, at 10:15 AM, helix84 wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Tim Donohue <tdono...@duraspace.org> wrote: >> This seems reasonable to me. I just prefer "dspace.data.dir" (or >> something similar, like "dspace.install.dir") to "dspace.var", as the >> meaning of the latter may not make sense to some folks. > > Sorry to chime in on a naming issue that seems like bikeshading, but I > don't agree that "data" is preferable to "var", as it doesn't say > anything whather that "data" is read-only or writable, which is the > distinction we're trying to make here. > > > Regards, > ~~helix84 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and > search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck > Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-devel mailing list > Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
