.lemminx-maven directory is created in a strange place

[Madjosz]

Since I updated to Eclipse 2023-09 together with M2E - POM Editor using LemMinX language server 2.0.5.20230815-1219 a .lemminx-maven directory appeared in an unwanted place. I would assume that this directory would be created in %USERPROFILE% like other tools (.m2, .p2, .ssh and even .lemminx) or maybe %APPDATA% but for some reason it is created

• as a sibling directory of my local maven repository OR
• in the parent directory of my workspace OR
• in the parent directory of my running Eclipse

(which are the same in my setting). Since this is a directory I want to keep clean I don't want any autogenerated directories there.

System information
M2E - POM Editor using LemMinX language server (includes Incubating components)
2.0.5.20230815-1219
org.eclipse.m2e.lemminx.feature.feature.group Eclipse.org - m2e

Eclipse IDE for RCP and RAP Developers (includes Incubating components)
Version: 2023-09 (4.29.0)
Build id: 20230907-1323

openjdk version "17.0.8.1" 2023-08-24
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-17.0.8.1+1 (build 17.0.8.1+1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-17.0.8.1+1 (build 17.0.8.1+1, mixed mode, sharing)

Windows 10 Pro 22H2
build 19045.3448

[angelozerr]

At first see #497 for more explanation why we need .lemminx-maven.

Any contribution are welcome to generate this folder in an another location.

[Madjosz]

Ok but why when you cannot take ${userName}/.m2/.lemminx-maven (which seems like a strange choice since no directory in .m2 starts with a dot in my case) why not just take ${userName}/.lemminx-maven as a default? Instead you do

lemminx-maven/lemminx-maven/src/main/java/org/eclipse/lemminx/extensions/maven/utils/LocalRepositoryUtils.java

Line 95 in 7cee518

return new File(localRepositoryDir.getParentFile(), LEMMINX_MAVEN);

[angelozerr]

Ok but why when you cannot take ${userName}/.m2/.lemminx-maven (which seems like a strange choice since no directory in .m2 starts with a dot in my case) why not just take ${userName}/.lemminx-maven as a default? Instead you do

I agree with you, it is better to use ${userName}/.lemminx-maven