On 24/03/2013 09:43, Marcus Denker wrote:
On Mar 24, 2013, at 10:40 AM, "Sean P. DeNigris" <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:
Mark Bestley wrote
For OSX what should probably happen is that the image is saved to ~/Library/Application Support
That doesn't sound right to me. How about the use case where I have a portable image on a USB stick? I don't want to make a local copy of the image, just run it. I get putting the VM in a shared predictable location, but why the image? How does one then keep multiple Pharo 2.0's on the same computer?
This depends on on view of using the OS. For portable images etc the the image can go anywhere. To fully fit in with Apple's OS paths then yes data should be in a given place (rereading <http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/FileManagement/Concept...> suggests it should be ~/Documents) That that just gives the directory path - the images can be named differently to allow many of them. (On OSX I suppose there is also a case that the image and change files etc. all should be saved in a directory that could be marked as a bundle) I have used images on Dropbox (which forces a different directory ~/Dropbox in OSX and elsewhere on Windows) to move between my machines.
We will not do it like this.
What is planned is that the "Pharo installation" contains a template (read only). When you open the template, it will ask you to save the image to your home directory.
Makes sense for the different possible usages. Although for OSX should be ~/Documents or possible ~/Application\ Support/... for the first case, then probably best the last directory used.
Images are like documents, it should be very easy to have a lot of them.
I should write down what is the plan⦠sadly I have too much else to do, so this will take a while.