[Sugar-devel] How is the 'default' string in '.sugar/default' determined?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:52, Martin Langhoff<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 17:24, Martin Langhoff<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In the Sugar internals, how do you obtain the Sugar config storage
>>> directory? Moreover, what is the /correct/, recommended way to do it,
>>> one that will work on .82, .84 & .86 from activities, Sugar Shell
>>> code... and cronjobs (that run under the same user, but different ENV,
>>> and not spawned by sugar shell).
>>
>> 'default' is the name of the profile. If you want to use a different
>> profile, you can set the env var SUGAR_PROFILE.
>
> Cool.
>
>> You can use sugar.env.get_profile_path() in all those Sugar versions.
>
> How can I get that safely from a cronjob?

I don't think I can answer that for you, but the implementation is
really simple:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/env.py#line31

I don't think we are going to change the path of that dir any time soon.

Regards,

Tomeu

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