19 Sep
2011
19 Sep
'11
8:41 p.m.
On 09/19/2011 12:45 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
Thomas just told me that he's made a change for Extension Manager (apparently there
was a vote for it and I missed it - I can't find it so if anyone has the link please
point me to it) and that by default now the Extension Manager uses the temporary directory
to store installed extensions (Before it was using ~/.xwiki).
Not a proper vote, but I think this is the mail Thomas is mentioning:
http://markmail.org/message/mgjnjdw46rohdpbk
I thus want to throw my -1 to release 3.2 final with
this (I'd also much prefer if 3.2M3 doesn't have it as much as possible). The
reason is that the tmp/ directory can get wiped anytime and the user can thus suddenly
loose all its installed extensions. I believe we need a permanent location for that.
We have 2 general options IMO:
1) Don't start xwiki if the work directory is not explicitly configured
2) Make the default EM work directory be the same as before (ie ~/.xwiki), when the work
dir config property is not defined
Personally I think that 2 doesn't really work. On a serious server
installation there shouldn't be any ~ directory for the "user" running
the server. ~tomcat is /dev/null on my system.
Ideally, there should be a wizard at the start asking for this, in a
mandatory step. But we're pretty far from having a proper first-run
setup wizard.
If I have to chose between these two, +1 for 1)
I also want to propose that for the standalone
distribution of XE (the jetty/hsqldb package) we use work/ as the work directory. We
already create this directory and we should use it (it's already used by our lucene
indexing BTW).
+1 for this one.
WDYT?
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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