Well, these so-called standards are well and nice but frankly, even my vim editor uses the same as maven and friends.<div><br></div><div>Some examples: .m2, .mc, .inkscape, .subversion, .hg, .gitconfig, .Xcode, .cache, .cups, .wireshark, .netbeans</div>

<div><br></div><div>All in my ~ on *nix and in %USERPROFILE% on Windows</div><div><br></div><div>There are standards and defacto standards. I am with the second ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Having package-cache embedded inside the application on OSX is plain ugly. Like storing your data in &quot;Program Files&quot;. Erk!</div>

<div><br></div><div>Anyway, I can put it where I want on my own, so let&#39;s end this thread.</div><div><br></div><div>Phil<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/4 Damien Cassou <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:damien.cassou@gmail.com" target="_blank">damien.cassou@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:28 PM, <a href="mailto:phil@highoctane.be">phil@highoctane.be</a> &lt;<a href="mailto:phil@highoctane.be">phil@highoctane.be</a>&gt; wrote:<br>


&gt; package-cache, the .m2 of Pharo... But .m2 is under ~ by default.<br>
&gt; Why couldn&#39;t package-cache be like that on *nix by default and under the<br>
&gt; %USERPROFILE% on Windows?<br>
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because maven does not use standard mechanisms:<br>
<a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html" target="_blank">http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html</a><br>
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Damien Cassou<br>
<a href="http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st" target="_blank">http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st</a><br>
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&quot;Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them<br>
popular by not having them.&quot; James Iry<br>
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