Allow configFolder to be set via environment variable

[rafi]

I try to keep all my configuration in XDG standard inside the ~/.config directory. Could you allow setting --configFolder as an environment variable? e.g. GCALCLI_CONFIG_DIR

[tresni]

Should be possible. I'll take a look

[rafi]

That'll be great thanks

[peterhoeg]

Ideally we split up the config (the rc file) and cache data (oauth2 and actual cache) and stick them into $XDG_CONFIG_DIR and $XDG_CACHE_DIR respectfully. Those variables are exactly for that purpose so that means $GCALCLI_CONFIG_DIR is no longer needed.

[michaelmhoffman]

Would support XDG used by default for new installations.

The xdg Python package makes it easy to use the XDG standard.

[jcrowgey]

That sounds reasonable to me. I'd like to convert the rc file format itself to something standard (instead of just holding options in text, there's an issue for this).

[mazunki]

Is this being worked on, or should I create a patch for it?

I took a quick glance at the code, and it should be quite straightforward to fix it. I can take a further look at it on Wednesday, in 2 days, and submit a PR.

I'd also like to address the "issue" of --config complaining about being ambiguous, and the fact that using the --config-folder parameter expects one file name, while the default one requires no .gcalcli_ prefix.

[znxuz]

Is there any follow up on this? Would also like to have this functionality by default / via EV and to not clutter up the home dir.