[TYPO3-dev] New icons to the core or to t3skin?

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
>> In any case anything in typo3temp/ can be removed in any time. This is
>> the idea of a "temp" directory.
> 
> The problems arises IMHO because typo3temp/ acts both as (short time) temporary storage and
> (long/intermediate time) caching storage.
> 
> The difference between a temp/ and a cache/ is in my opinion that any process must (should) cleanup
> any data created in temp/. It should hold only data that went to disk because it couldn't be
> processed in memory. You could clean temp/ any time but I recommend to clean only old/stale files
> unless the system is suspended.
> 
> A cache/ OTOH will naturally hold the data for longer and especially for retrieval by other processes.
> 

It's up to the application to use a good directory structure in the temp 
dir so you see which data is cache and which data is temp. It's not easy 
to clean up temp data eg with generated pics - some are long term cache, 
some are single process created.

vg Steffen