| Summary: | RFE: Use XDG base dir spec instead of home | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | jmccann |
| Component: | eclipse | Assignee: | Alexander Kurtakov <akurtako> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | akurtako, cschalle, ebaron, overholt, patrickm, sgehwolf, zx |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2014-01-16 09:36:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
jmccann
2011-04-02 19:00:10 UTC
Eclipse doesn't make a clean difference between config, cache, data and runtime data. Wherever we choose to put this data it should be in a single directory because the layout of ~/.eclipse folder is the same on all platforms and not all of them expose xdg variables. As most of the data in ~/.eclipse is installation specific we would need to put it in $XDG_DATA_HOME, am I right? Additionally Eclipse doesn't support reusing metadata from previous version and if it's put data_home we will not gain anything. I'm all for following XDG Directory Spec but this requires working with upstream to get it fixed and I won't be able to work on that anytime soon. Help is more than welcome! We should file this upstream (I'm guessing Equinox but it'll involve lots of teams): https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Equinox&component=Framework Closing as this would not be accepted upstream and there is even noone that would spend the huge amount of work on that. |