[rfc][icedtea-web] offline support

[Jacob Wisor]

On 08/05/2014 10:34 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> On 08/04/2014 06:03 PM, Jacob Wisor wrote:
>> On 08/04/2014 05:34 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>>>
>>> The leading code was CacheUtil.cleanCache, which is making some complicated
>>> decisions whether to delete file. I have not found  case when keep all should be
>>> usefull. (?????)
>>>
>>> Does anybody reacll why
>>>               * FIXME: if cacheDir is for example $USER_HOME and they have a
>>> folder called http
>>>               * and/or https. These would get removed.
>>>               */
>>>              remove.add(cacheDir + File.separator + "http");
>>>              remove.add(cacheDir + File.separator + "https");
>>>
>>> do exists?
>>
>> This case has become obsolete since IcedTea-Web's support for XDG. I assume
>> this FIXME has been
>> added for when XDG is not supported on the target system. So the user may have
>> "http" and/or "https"
>> sub-directories in their $HOME directory (although improbable but possible).
>> As I understand,
>> currently these sub-directories get removed unconditionally which may lead to
>> unintended loss of
>> data for some users, hence the FIXME. So, further code needs to be added to
>> selectively and safely
>> delete files in those sub-directories on systems which do not support XDG.
>>
>> Indeed, software should never /delete/ files it has not written itself (except
>> for file managers, of
>> course), in order to minimize the possibility of losing data unintentionally.
>>
> Well that more then fair enough. I will remove those lines  in this patch for head.

So XDG has become a hard dependency since 1.5, right?

Jacob