Re: [Opensync-devel] dual installs of 0.22 and 0.4x

[Pawel K. <paw...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:03, Juha Tuomala <Juh...@ik...> wrote:
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> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Pawel Kot wrote:
>> Maybe I'm putting the cat against the pigeons but why not follow
>> freedesktop.org standards starting from 0.40?
>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
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> Good question. I think plenty of software already uses it,
> i've been changing some files under it. Then again, there
> are tons of projects that still don't use it. Generally
> XDG stuff has been good, for example the xdg-open has
> made life much easier in distro level when integrating
> software together.
>
> So would it be then like:
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>   ~/.config/opensync/0.40
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> as they don't seem to address the actual problem in hand, which
> is versions related.

That's right. However I would see also usage of XDG_DATA_HOME or
XDG_CACHE_HOME (probably the former one) for storing non-config data
like all *.db files.

> Any idea why it would make much difference to have .config
> prefix? Does some generic tool already use it regardless
> of actual config writers?

Well, I don't know actually origins but it definitely cleans up the
home directory. To me there's no obvious quality advantage, but
following guidelines you know where to find configuration
(XDG_CONFIG_HOME), other permanent user data (XDG_DATA_HOME) and
temporary user data (XDG_CACHE_HOME).

take care,
-- 
Pawel Kot