Parsed syntax cache save location

[Aleksey Midenkov]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Aleksey Midenkov <midenok at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Where KDevelop stores cache of parsed sources? Why it doesn't store it
>> in project location (.kdev4)? I noticed that it reparses project after
>> some time passed which makes me believe that it does cache aging.
>> Anyway, the best choice is to store cache into .kdev4 with infinite
>> lifetime, because: 1. parsing of long project takes about an hour and
>> 2. there is no need to keep cache of deleted projects. Is it possible
>> to set this in configuration?
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> It's stored in ~/.cache/kdevduchain/ by default, or whatever XDG cache
> directory is specified.
>
> You don't want to have it in project/.kdev4/* because:
> - It's not a per-project cache, but per-session.
> - many people use distributed file systems, if it's not with the
> cache, the system struggles to keep updating the cache through the
> network and the experience is terrible.
>
> Aleix

So, if project is closed in session, it's cache is deleted? That's
another problem because multiple 200Mb-code projects don't fit into
one session. So I forced to create new session for each new project.
It is good to turn off 'session' concept in this case. And keep cache
with the project.