Re: OOoLilyPond 0.3 released

[Mats Bengtsson]

Samuel Hartmann wrote:
> Hi Mats,
>
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > Samuel Hartmann wrote:
> > >     * on Linux, ~/.ooolilypond-tmp is used for temporary files
> >
> > Why not use a directory in /tmp/ for temporary files? I'm probably 
> > not the
> > only one who has $HOME on a network file system with limited quota.
> > Of course, I could add a soft link from .ooolilypond-tmp to /tmp/.
>
> Using /tmp can cause problems when several users use OOoLilyPond on 
> the same machine. The temporary files are the LilyPond input file, the 
> LilyPond output, the eps or png file. These file stay in the temporary 
> directory until the next time you run OOoLilyPond. Another user 
> running OOoLilyPond will have problem deleting or overwriting these 
> files.
Such problems are easily handled by creating separate subdirectories 
below /tmp/,
for example based on the user name or using tmpfile().

  /Mats