Well, these so-called standards are well and nice but frankly, even my vim editor uses the same as maven and friends.
Some examples: .m2, .mc, .inkscape, .subversion, .hg, .gitconfig, .Xcode, .cache, .cups, .wireshark, .netbeans All in my ~ on *nix and in %USERPROFILE% on Windows There are standards and defacto standards. I am with the second ones. Having package-cache embedded inside the application on OSX is plain ugly. Like storing your data in "Program Files". Erk! Anyway, I can put it where I want on my own, so let's end this thread. Phil 2012/7/4 Damien Cassou <[email protected]> > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:28 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > package-cache, the .m2 of Pharo... But .m2 is under ~ by default. > > Why couldn't package-cache be like that on *nix by default and under the > > %USERPROFILE% on Windows? > > because maven does not use standard mechanisms: > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > > -- > Damien Cassou > http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st > > "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them > popular by not having them." James Iry > >
