Moving back to .NET

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Sep 25 04:33:34 PDT 2015


On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 10:57:23 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 08:53:41 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 07:26:13 UTC, rumbu wrote:
>>
>>> And I don't use dub, last time I checked, it's messing with 
>>> my AppData folder.
>>
>> "I don't use this program, it's storing internally used data 
>> in the folder specifically designated for programs to store 
>> internally used data in" whut?
>
> The AppData\Roaming folder is synchronized automatically on our 
> domain controller (this is normal behaviour). Since dub is 
> storing all dependencies in this folder and each user profile 
> storage is limited, I'd prefer to have control over this space. 
> More than that comparing thousands of source code files at each 
> login/logout it's not a nice thing. When I login to another 
> computer, all dub data is replicated on this computer.

Fair enough, I guess this wasn't considered when dub was 
designed. Have you considered making a github issue for this 
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub)? It would be 
really great for people to be able to choose their own cache 
directory

> I hardly consider source code files as "internal used data".

Meh, don't see any important distinction.


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