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Re: Things we want from Linux/FreeBSD release archives [message #53481 is a reply to message #53478] Sun, 05 April 2020 13:22 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
dolik.rce is currently offline  dolik.rce
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mirek wrote on Sun, 05 April 2020 13:10
Zbych wrote on Sun, 05 April 2020 11:12
Novo wrote on Sun, 05 April 2020 00:49
This does affect Mac and Linux apps.


What is technical reason of this change?
To be honest I pissed off by changes like this. I have many embedded apps that keep their settings in .upp directory and the last thing I need is to loose their settings, because default ConfigFile() has changed.



Thinking about it... I can actually change ConfigFile further so that it will use ~/.upp config if it finds it instead of ~/.config.

Do we want that?

Mirek

Well, it would solve the backwards compatibility issue, quite smoothly. Only new apps or new installations of existing apps would start to use the old directory. Possible alternative would be to make the code migrate the files from ~/.upp to ~/.config, but that seems quite invasive and could result in some broken apps, e.g. when both new and older version would be run on same machine.

Honza
 
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