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

[Daniel G. <go...@b1...>]

On Sunday 27 September 2009 12:30:21 pm Pawel Kot wrote:
> > 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:
> >
> >   ~/.config/opensync/0.40
> >
> > 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).
> 

Chris, could you incoperate the changes for XDG_{CONFIG,DATA,CACHE}_HOME?

In the beginning i guess it would be fine if you start with XDG_CONFIG_HOME 
and make this the default opensync config directory for 0.40

e.g. ~/.config/opensync/0.40/

Best Regards,
Daniel

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