Data that is not covered by the basedir-spec
piegames <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.xdg.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi From a software developer perspective, a question I have to ask myself a lot is "where should I store this data?". Luckily, the XDG basedir specification has pretty good answers for most of my data, but not always. Where should I store: - logs and history? [1] - user-installed libraries (Gradle, Maven, Cargo etc. currently all dump them into custom dotfolders)? - user binaries, plugins and scripts? - self-contained virtual systems (Flatpak, Wine [2], VirtualBox)? I do not think any of these fit well into the config/cache/data trio. I also noticed that many programs that don't adhere to the basedir specification have data that fits one of the descriptions above. A clarification (or extension) of the spec might thus lead to higher adoption rates. piegames [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/XDGBaseDirectorySpecification#state [2]: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20888 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg