(/home/user/.sbt) has been deprecated. Please use the standard location: /home/user/project?

Question

When I start the sbt console I get this:

alex@alex-K43U:~$ sbt console [warn] Alternative project directory .sbt (/home/alex/.sbt) has been deprecated since sbt 0.12.0. [warn]
Please use the standard location: /home/alex/project [info] Loading project definition from /home/alex/.sbt [info] Set current project to default-22b2b7 (in build file:/home/alex/)

I just started using scala and sbt, so I'm not really sure what the warning means. It means that I have to move all the content of /home/alex/.sbt to /home/alex/project?

(I have this folder too: /home/alex/sbt which has a bin folder and a jansi-license.txt file. I think that's how I installed sbt).

Answer 1

You can run sbt from any dedicated folder besides your home to get rid of this warning.

Answer 2

This warn appears because you run sbt from the directory that contains the .sbt folder, that in your case is /home/alex/.sbt

Create a folder (named project or something else) inside /home/alex/ and run sbt from there. Don't move the .sbt data inside the new folder because the warn will appear again.