Re: [Starpu-devel] [Starpu-commits] [Review needed] Move $HOME/.starpu/sampling to $XDG_CACHE_HOME/starpu/sampling

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Cyril Roelandt, le Tue 13 Dec 2011 17:33:11 +0100, a écrit :
> On 12/13/2011 05:06 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >Nathalie Furmento<nathalie.furmento@labri.fr>  skribis:
> >
> >>What about the recent commit which integrates STARPU_HOME?
> >
> >What is it used for?
> 
> Isn't that the value passed to the --prefix option of the configure ?

No. See the code and documentation: I've just made it a replacement for
$HOME.

> Maybe what we should do is :
> 
> 1) Check whether $HOME/.starpu/sampling exists, in which case we could store
> our perfmodels there.
> 2) Check whether $XDG_CACHE_HOME is defined : in this case, store the
> perfmodels in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/starpu/sampling
> 3) Store the perfmodels in $STARPU_HOME/starpu/sampling
> 
> How good would that be ?

As I said in another mail, I'd rather have a straight algorithm: look
for a known list of places, and if none exists, create the first of
the list. The list only containing places which have the corresponding
variables being defined.

Samuel