This is response to #158. @leungbk, do you agree this makes more sense?
This package features four location variables.
The value of url-configuration-directory affects the values of the
other three variables. For some reason only url-cache-directory is
set when it is being defined. url-cookie-file and url-history-file
are initialized to nil and set to proper values when the url package
is first used. This is done in url-do-setup.
We have to theme url-configuration-directory because third-party
package may put other files in there. We do however give up on
following the conventions that led us to use "url/configuration/"
as its value.
Instead we use just "url/", which means that the cache directory and
the two files can be placed inside that directory, while also using
paths that are based on the names of the respective variables.
(We already did that for url-cache-directory, but not the other two
which we did not theme explicitly until now.)
In other words we violate the conventions in the case of one variable
so that we can avoid violating the conventions for three variables.
leungbk
commented
3 years ago
This is response to #158. @leungbk, do you agree this makes more sense?
This package features four location variables.
The value of
url-configuration-directoryaffects the values of the other three variables. For some reason onlyurl-cache-directoryis set when it is being defined.url-cookie-fileandurl-history-fileare initialized to nil and set to proper values when theurlpackage is first used. This is done inurl-do-setup.We have to theme
url-configuration-directorybecause third-party package may put other files in there. We do however give up on following the conventions that led us to use "url/configuration/" as its value.Instead we use just "url/", which means that the cache directory and the two files can be placed inside that directory, while also using paths that are based on the names of the respective variables.
(We already did that for
url-cache-directory, but not the other two which we did not theme explicitly until now.)In other words we violate the conventions in the case of one variable so that we can avoid violating the conventions for three variables.