[pmwiki-users] working directory

H. Fox haganfox at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Feb 22 13:19:48 CST 2006


On 2/21/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> Neil writes:
> > At 2006-02-17  01:40 PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> > >On a related note, I'm really desirous of having a standard directory
> > >(other than wiki.d/ itself, although it could be a subdirectory of
> > >wiki.d/) where cache files, index files, and other working files
> > >could be safely kept.
> >
> > How about working.d/  ???
> >
> > Not an obvious name in anything other than English, but then scripts/
> > and cookbook/ aren't either.
>
> I'm thinking I will shorten this to work.d/, and use that.  This
> would be the place for temporary files,

My first impression of work.d/ is that it isn't the best name for this
directory, but right this second I don't have a better name for it
besides play-around-and-have-fun.d/ .  :-)

Seriously though, isn't it really a temp space?  By that, I mean would
it be something that wouldn't need to be -- or maybe even shouldn't be
be -- restored from a backup?  If that's the case, naming it something
obvious like tmp/ or temp.d/ would make it easier to know what the
directory is used for.

> and we could also see about
> moving deleted pages into this directory (instead of leaving them
> in wiki.d/).

I like having them in wiki.d/, so it would be nice to see that as a
configurable option.

Hagan




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