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authorRobin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>2014-02-26 20:43:43 +0100
committerRobin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>2014-02-26 20:43:43 +0100
commit3b8ba073fc5df98ca3426fb20706779be3352702 (patch)
treec953a4ff4336a20b7a0e83cdd6cb8865ff5c3c58 /libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc
parent4aaae2eb3ba65f97e173b1751e1ee3bec8925ed5 (diff)
add note to filesystem paths
used e.g. for personal (non system wide) VST cache.
Diffstat (limited to 'libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc')
-rw-r--r--libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc b/libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc
index 5228e85527..a523e35730 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc
@@ -95,9 +95,12 @@ user_cache_directory ()
#else
const char* c = 0;
- /* adopt freedesktop standards, and put .ardour3 into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config
+ /* adopt freedesktop standards, and put .ardour3 into $XDG_CACHE_HOME
+ * defaulting to or ~/.config
+ *
+ * NB this should work on windows, too, but we may want to prefer
+ * PBD::get_platform_fallback_folder (PBD::FOLDER_VST) or someplace
*/
-
if ((c = getenv ("XDG_CACHE_HOME")) != 0) {
p = c;
} else {