On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:51:21 -0400 Trans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > May I make a slightly different suggestion here. I know it isn't the > typical way, but I've been trying to promote the idea to of using > shared hidden home directories. Home directories have gotten so > bloated with hidden config files, when I use a file dialog that > doesn't support any way to hide them it is annoying, to say the least. > > So to help combat this I've been modeling my app's use of hidden home > locations roughly after FHS. Eg. > > ~/.bin/ > ~/.etc/ > ~/.lib/ > ~/.share/ > > For rake tasks ~/.lib/ might be the most appropriate, though /.share > is sort of safe bet for anything. So instead of ~/.rake, how about: > > ~/.lib/rake > > Of course, both could be supported too. > > > Also, I see you added '.rake' to the list of rakefile names. I'm not sure > > that is necessary, since we never find ~/.rake when searching for rakefiles. > > Hmm... Does it matter? Won't rake -T just say "no one home"? Also, the > optional alternative of "_rake" could work too. That's what Darcs > does to support Windows better. >
Perhaps the easiest solution, rather than checking for potentially infinite number of places where people might want to put this, is to have a default (~/.rake seems like a good place) and have the ability to override the default via an environmental variable? Regards, Jon _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
