From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: ongoing NEWS Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:49:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87bpokcdw1.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87prd1i55l.fsf@delenn.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245433789 26781 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2009 17:49:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Wingo , guile-devel To: Andreas Rottmann Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 19 19:49:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MHiDh-0003NW-0b for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:49:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MHiDg-0003np-Hi for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MHiDd-0003na-RI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MHiDY-0003jO-HC for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49693 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MHiDY-0003jD-A4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:57927) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MHiDX-0006L4-SB for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F011F93A3; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:49:35 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FDB38021; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:49:34 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87prd1i55l.fsf@delenn.lan> (Andreas Rottmann's message of "Thu\, 18 Jun 2009 23\:49\:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8714 Archived-At: Andreas Rottmann writes: > As long as nothing is set in stone, perhaps you want to consider > following the XDG basedir spec[0], which would suggest using something > under ~/.cache/ per default; this would make e.g. having reasonable > backup policies easier, as stuff under ~/.cache can be safely ignored > for backups, and it avoids cluttering $HOME with yet-another > dotfile/dotdir I'd like this too. > (although that is somewhat of a lost cause on GNU/Linux > anyway). It's incremental; if we can avoid one new piece of arbitrariness, I think that's worthwhile. Regards, Neil