Hi Rob, On 25/11/14 12:48, Rob Spanton wrote:
This is a pretty standard practice on most Unix-like platforms -- it's what a very large number of tools have done for a long time. (e.g. ipython using ~/.ipython, same for wireshark, firefox, mplayer, wine, etc etc.)
It's not a defined standard, but I agree it's what happens in practice —especially for older software.
I don't see much point in moving them on Linux, as it doesn't actually fix any problems. However, I can see that parameterising the situation will sort out some problems on Windows (OSX has a home dir as well, so I can't see that it would be a problem there), but obviously not the greater problem of Windows being used...
Generally speaking, I agree with not moving them on Linux (and Mac OS X to an extent). My main intent behind my question was to determine whether people would prefer to maintain backward compatible or use the correct file storage location. Given that I'm currently spending some time working on improving the tools, it seems like the sort of improvement that could happen.
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