Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] XDG Base Directory Spec

[Mark K. K. <tux...@cb...>]

There are some minor issues but it's certainly duable, even for non-*nix
systems.  I think it's prodent to keep it at a discussion stage until some
of the big-name projects use it.  Do you know how much following there is
for the XDG Base Directory specs?

Some minor issues I'm thinking about:

  1. When parsing the $XDG_*_DIRS environment variables on multiple OSes,
     since the directory separator is different on different OSes, a
     different call would have to be made on different OSes.  Some extra
     care may need to be taken (but probably not necessary) when the
     code is called on multi-platform environments.

  2. If data files exist in old directory, but $XDG* environment variable
     defines a new path, should the old directory be used instead, or
     should the old directory be transferred over, or should the old
     directory be used only for reading old data but the new directory
     be used for writing any new data?

  3. The spec isn't 1.0 yet.  Should we wait until 1.0?

  4. The fallback paths aren't backwards compatible.  Should the fallback
     paths use the convention that's being used now?

-Mark


On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Bill Kendrick wrote:

> Let's discuss this :)
>
>   http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

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