Config directories

[casualjim]

For global configuration of datamon we will need to provide a place to store the configuration in the home directory.

Config directories

Use OS specific config directories.

OSX

This means asking for the Application Support directory:

• Code Sample for Go
• Apple Developer Guide

Linux

This means using the contents of $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:

• Arch Linux Wiki
• XDG Base Directory Specification

Windows

%APPDATA%

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming

• MSDN folderid
• Pointlogic appdata folder

[kerneltime]

Moving content from slack posted by @casualjim

https://github.com/OpenPeeDeeP/xdg https://github.com/shibukawa/configdir datamon is not following OS conventions to store config files, opting to put it in the cluttered $HOME instead those libraries provide a different basepath for linux, osx and windows to store config files in the right locations

[kerneltime]

Will try to get this done before we cut the next release and move to a better way of shipping the CLI.