preferences file

[songbird]

DL Neil wrote:
> On 29/01/19 1:29 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>> 
>>>> What about running a multi-tenant application (for multiple users who
>>>> are not also system-users) - cf them logging-on to run their own. It is
>>>> appropriate, possibly even "required" to keep Fred's config file,
>>>> reports, graphs, logs, etc; separate from Barney's. Ideally they will
>>>> not be sub-dirs of the application/package.
>>>
>>>    if it is per user defined then $HOME/.config/<app-name>,
>>> $HOME/.local/share/<app-name> and any temporary data can go
>>> in $HOME/.cache/<app-name> will do it for posix on Windows
>>> there is the per user app stuff which i haven't sorted out
>>> yet.
>>>
>>>    $HOME changes per user login name change.
>> 
>> 	$HOME/.config/<app-name>/<app-user>/
>> 	$HOME/.cache/<app-name>/<app-user>/
>
>
> +1
>
> The latter for tmp/intermediate files (without hassles, eg creating 
> unique fileNMs!). - and which can be wiped with a single command at the 
> end of the run!
>
> The former for 'valuable stuff'. With the opportunity, to separate 
> output presentations and inputs using sub-dirs!
>
> (noticed in one such implementation, the need to separate different 
> 'runs' of the same app, by the same client, using alternate hypotheses - 
> that required another 'layer' of sub-dirs!)
>
> Thanks!

  oh, well i don't need anything that complicated but
usually there is a way of generating unique file names
and managing temporary files.

  if you are running an application by a login user
which does not log out then eventually you may need
to use some other method of cleaning up the application's
files somehow but to me that is a whole different topic
from the issue of where to put them. 


  songbird