On 11.03.2010, at 06:52, Colin Putney wrote:
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> On 2010-03-10, at 9:20 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
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>> Hi -
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>> I have an axe to grind with regards to preferences. In my use, having project-local preferences is completely pointless and consequently having the "local" option in the preference browser is pointless too.
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>> What I'd rather like to see are *persistent* preferences, i.e., preferences that are picked up automatically in all the images that I use.
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>> What do people think? Worth throwing out "local" preferences and instead use "persistent" ones?
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> +1. 
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> One of the things I think Squeak is missing is the notion of shared resources. VW has the $VISUALWORKS directory where it looks for parcels and the like, and most other programming languages have directories where libraries and other resources are installed. 
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> The only thing that's currently shared between images in Squeak is the sources file. I think it would be good to have a user-specific, and possibly system-wide location where things that are shared between images could be stored. Off the top of my head:
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> 	- the sources file
> 	- persisted preferences
> 	- MC cache repository
> 	- SM cache
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> Colin

I don't think we need to throw out project-local preferences. Seems to be orthogonal to persistent preferences to me.

Persistent preferences are much needed. Here is how I imagine them to work from a user's perspective (had no time to work on it though):

http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-134

- Bert -