Ian Turton ha scritto: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Mike Pumphrey <m...@opengeo.org> wrote: >> Hi Ian. That is a valid consideration. The new installer does put a >> shortcut in the Start Menu to that folder, but you're right that the >> inability to simply navigate to the data_dir via Explorer could be a bit >> awkward. Do you have an alternate placement suggestion, or do you think we >> should leave things as is? >> > > I guess $HOME/Geoserver_data would probably work best across most > systems - the user can find it easily, has write permission and you > could put a readme in the directory telling them how to change > $GEOSERVER_DATADIR to point to an new location if they want to change > it.
Hmmm... except in some systems (Unix) a user can be there without having a home, and that is especially true for users that run services. However, this is the Windows installer. Can a user that runs services exist without a home there? Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
