[Dev] Profile directory changes landed, location of __repository__ etc. changed

[John Anderson]

Profile directory doesn't seem like the best name for this directory to 
me. I prefer repository directory. Also what is in  randpool.dat and 
cacert.pem and why shouldn't they be in the repository like the rest of 
our data?

John

Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> bear landed the first version of profile directory. This is needed for
> installers among other things. Basically anything that we used to write
> into chandler dir will now end up in the profile dir.
>
> Currently the profile dirs are:
>
> Windows: $HOME\Chandler
> Mac:  /Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/Chandler
> Linux: ~/.chandler
>
> These are going to change, though. See
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ProfileDirectory for 
> plans.
>
> Here are the 5 things that I know will now be placed into and read from
> the profile dir:
>
> chandler.log
> __repository__
> __repository__.lock
> randpool.dat
> cacert.pem
>
> Note that cacert.pem is copied from chandler/crypto/cacert.pem if it
> does not exist in the profile dir. This means that you can edit
> cacert.pem as you like in the profile dir without fear of it changing
> from under you (and you can stop changing the one in chandler/crypto and
> don't need to worry about checking it in accidentally).
>
> -- 
>   Heikki Toivonen
>
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