My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024...

drwho , 2 months ago

BRB, putting in a PR to make /etc mode 1777 by default.

walthervonstolzing , 2 months ago

vim now has an option to put the .vim folder in ~/.config; though I’m not sure if the default plugin/package & syntax folders can be set under ~/.local/share.

PlexSheep , 2 months ago

You can also just use neovim instead, among other improvements, it’s configs are in the xdg dirs

daniyeg , 2 months ago

حق

umbrella , 2 months ago

yes please!

sfera , 2 months ago

Are there abstractions available around the XDG specifications to resolve the proper paths?

dan , 2 months ago

Use the environment variables.

sfera , 2 months ago

I do. But you might have misunderstood my question. I was not asking for assistance. I was just curious if there are libraries available which allow easy adoption of the XDG specification. I imagine that such abstractions would be useful for multi-platform software and generally to lower the bar for adoption.

dan , 2 months ago

Depends on the programming language. In C# for example, there’s an API to get special folder paths that works in all supported environments (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, and I think iOS too). On Linux, it includes fallbacks in case the environment variables aren’t set.

MonkderDritte , 2 months ago

What language? Python has PyXDG.

In shell it’s simply

<span style="color:#323232;">XDG_DATA_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-"$HOME"/.local/share}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME"/.config}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">etc.
</span>

sfera , 2 months ago

Thanks, I did not know about PyXDG. That was the type of thing I was asking about.