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Add support for the XDG Base Directory Specification
You can find the specification here.
This blog post lists the advantages of using the XDG Base Directory Specification as follows:
-
$HOME
is a lot less cluttered. - Backups are a lot more safer and easier (you know that creating a backup of your
$XDG_DATA_HOME
along with your files is enough). - A lot easier to reset a default configuration if you want/need it (and without any risk of loosing information).
- Avoid some strange bugs that happen because you had a old version of some configuration file.
- It is a lot more flexible and portable because no paths are hard-coded. You can use the XDG library that does the job for you or, if you don’t want the dependency, implementing the XDG specification is only a few lines of code.
Why is this low priority?
Because it's not Nimble's job to adhere to the "XDG Base Directory Specification". Nimble also runs on Windows too and not everybody wants to think about XDG's requirements when developing a Nimble package.