Re: [squeak-dev] Sources file locations (was: User config directories)

3 Jan 2022


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On 2022-01-03, at 9:57 AM, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:
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 Primitive. Query for a common file location.
   Arguments:
           location: String describing the common file location.
   Return value: The path to the designated location.
   Known locations:
           'home' - the user's home directory
           'desktop' - the user's desktop directory

           'temp' - the temp directory to use
           'preferences' - the place to store (per user) app preferences
           'applications' - the directory for installing applications
           'fonts' - the directory to install fonts in the system

           'documents' - the users documents folder
           'music' - the users default location for music
           'pictures' - the users default location for pictures
           'videos' - the users default location for videos


Neat!
These are very user-oriented, which is fine.
Maybe we can augment it down the path with some system locations :)
The only one I don't see is the location for the sources file(s), which isn't surprising since I doubt VirtEnd uses them.
Suggestion - make the prim only return any platform specific directory or nil; the method could then supply whatever defaults seem sensible (ie pretty much what we assume now). Thus a platform without the prim would behave as now.
tim
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