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

[Cyril Roelandt <cyril.roelandt@inria.fr>]

On 12/15/2011 03:48 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Samuel Thibault<samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>  skribis:
>
> > Cyril Roelandt, le Mon 12 Dec 2011 17:03:48 +0100, a écrit :
> > > As Ludovic Courtes pointed out, the StarPU samplings should probably be
> > > stored in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/starpu/sampling rather than in
> > > $HOME/.starpu/sampling.
> > >
> > > Some of our users are probably used to having these files in
> > > $HOME/.starpu/sampling though, so it would be nice if nothing was to change
> > > for them.
> > >
> > > The following patch makes sure we store our perfmodels in $XDG_CACHE_HOME or
> > > $HOME/.cache if $HOME/.starpu/sampling does not exist :
> >
> > I'd rather have a clear simple algorithm: try all the paths in a given
> > order, and if none of them exists, create the first path in the order.
> > Otherwise it's a mess to document and care about.
>
> I think the goal should be to deprecate ~/.starpu and move towards XDG
> compliance.  What do you think?
>
> If we agree on that, then Cyril’s patch looks fine to me.  Perhaps it
> should issue a warning when something is found under ~/.starpu, and/or
> move it to the new location.

Do we want to use ~/.starpu if it already exists, no matter what 
environment variables are set ? Should we ignore it ? Move it to the new 
directory ?

Cyril.