Cache should be in ~/.cache/foo

[Prof Garth Wells]

According to

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

Instant should probably write cache files in $HOME/.cache

Add tags Tag help Anders Logg (logg) wrote on 2011-10-24: #1 I suggest $HOME/.cache/fenics/instant/

Hide comment Kent-Andre Mardal (kent-and) wrote on 2011-10-24: Re: [Bug 880758] [NEW] Cache should be in ~/.cache/foo #2 What is "XDG Base Directory Specification" used for?

Kent

On 24 October 2011 11:56, Garth Wells [e-mail] wrote:

[...] Hide comment Johan Hake (johan-hake) wrote on 2011-10-24: Re: [Bug 880758] Re: Cache should be in ~/.cache/foo #3 On Monday October 24 2011 04:13:55 Anders Logg wrote:

I suggest $HOME/.cache/fenics/instant/

Why not just:

$HOME/.cache/fenics/

Johan

Hide comment Martin Sandve Alnæs (martinal) wrote on 2011-10-24: #4 Better with instant/ so other projects can cache stuff.

Martin Den 24. okt. 2011 20.20 skrev "Johan Hake" [e-mail] følgende:

[...] Hide comment Anders Logg (logg) wrote on 2011-10-25: #5 Yes.

On a related note, I've put dolfin_parameters.xml in

~/.config/fenics/

not in

~/.config/fenics/dolfin

Should it be moved? In the config case, I seems the directory is not necessary since we can expect at most one file per FEniCS application (but there may be more).

Opinions?

[...] On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 07:53:57PM -0000, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote: [...] Hide comment Anders Logg (logg) wrote on 2011-10-25: Re: [Bug 880758] [NEW] Cache should be in ~/.cache/foo #6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org

Tror att Ubuntu och andra följer det.

[...] On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 01:26:04PM -0000, Kent-Andre Mardal wrote: [...] Hide comment Kent-Andre Mardal (kent-and) wrote on 2011-10-25: Re: [Bug 880758] Re: Cache should be in ~/.cache/foo #7 OK, but I would like to postpone this til after 1.0 and the book are released, in particular since we have written about the cache location in the instant chapter.

Kent

On 24 October 2011 21:53, Martin Sandve Alnæs [e-mail]:

[...] Hide comment Garth Wells (garth-wells) wrote on 2011-10-25: #8 On 25 Oct 2011, at 08:33, Kent-Andre Mardal [e-mail] wrote:

OK, but I would like to postpone this til after 1.0 and the book are released, in particular since we have written about the cache location in the instant chapter.

Surely it's a one word change?

Garth

[...] Hide comment Johan Hake (johan-hake) wrote on 2011-10-25: Re: [Bug 880758] [NEW] Cache should be in ~/.cache/foo #9 On Monday October 24 2011 23:34:51 Anders Logg wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org

Tror att Ubuntu och andra följer det.

In a way yes, but more importantly all the major Linux desktop environments which are based on X follows freedesktop.org.

Johan

[Felix Ospald]

It would also be cool to have an environment variable like INSTANT_CACHE_DIR to alter the directory. For example I'd like to use /dev/shm/instant as cache directory or if using multiple versions.

[Martin Sandve Alnæs]

@felix_ospald there is...

[Felix Ospald]

Thanks for the info. See here for a list of environment variables: https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/instant

[Martin Sandve Alnæs]

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