CLI should respect user‘s XDG base directory settings about cli

[yeskunall]

Probably because the entire CLI was rewritten in Rust.

[uncenter]

People that have tried to be "smart" or "creative" have caused a lot of mess, which this library is intended to reduce/fix.

Yikes 😬 this comment (for me) is immediately invalidated because OP does not provide any context/proof behind their statement. What mess? How is their library solving it?

The “problem” with the XDG spec is adoption, not implementation. I use the XDG spec to keep my $HOME de-cluttered, much like my IRL home.

Thanks for digging this up @uncenter. Given that this has received no response from anybody on the team in over a year, I imagine this is very low priority for them. I’ll keep it open for now, I guess.

I think you and I are in the same boat - I use macOS and I have set my XDG_* variables because $HOME/.config makes much more sense than Library/Application Support! I think this is a common pattern across crates that serve this purpose. All of the ones I found only try to use XDG_* when it is Linux, and use other OS-provided directories on Mac and Windows. I'm surprised that seemingly none of these maintainers use macOS! I think I'll open another issue on the dirs crate and suggest adding a parameter to prefer XDG_* or something.

[uncenter]

Is there a reason that PR was closed without comment? Seems like an important consideration.

[uncenter]

I've done some searching and it seems that the dirs crate is used to get the home directory with the current implementation. The lead maintainer of dirs explicitly said they won't be preferring XDG_* on non-XDG platforms, so this has to either be resolved here or we could consider switching to a different crate.

[yeskunall]

People that have tried to be "smart" or "creative" have caused a lot of mess, which this library is intended to reduce/fix.

Yikes 😬 this comment (for me) is immediately invalidated because OP does not provide any context/proof behind their statement. What mess? How is their library solving it?

The “problem” with the XDG spec is adoption, not implementation. I use the XDG spec to keep my $HOME de-cluttered, much like my IRL home.

Thanks for digging this up @uncenter. Given that this has received no response from anybody on the team in over a year, I imagine this is very low priority for them. I’ll keep it open for now, I guess.