Monticello: change package cache dir?
Karl Ramberg
karl.ramberg at chello.se
Wed Oct 22 08:25:36 UTC 2003
Ned Konz wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:23 pm, Avi Bryant wrote:
> > Well, I agree this can be a problem, but I'm not sure what the solution
> > is. For example, it could use a relative path, but I think that in many
> > cases you don't actually want this - personally, I would want all of my
> > images to share the *same* package-cache, no matter where they were on my
> > disk. Ditto with SM - I don't see much point in having redundant,
> > project-specific caches. But obviously this breaks when I move my image
> > to a different machine (particularly to a different platform).
>
> I have an "inisqueak" script that symlinks:
> squeakmap directory
> package cache
> EMAIL files
> sources file
> changesets save directory
> my.prefs
>
> and it all works quite well.
This sounds great. A cross platform version would be cool.
A central place for this stuff is good. I made a enhancement that save's
the email setup next to the VM.
There is a issue on Mac, I think, with sources not being
an alias (symlink) but one solution is to put everything in the VM dir.
Karl
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