Announcing config-path an OS independent configuration file paths

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 15:51, Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
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> > On 30 Sep 2019, at 14:17, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > How does this compare to the existing appdirs module on PyPI?
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> I did not know about appdirs.

Fair enough ;-)

> It does not seem to have separate read vs. save paths.
> Required for XDG specification where a path of config folder is defined.
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> On 1st run the config may be in a system directory which the user cannot write to.
> Saving a config file will go into the users config file.
> On the 2nd run that users config should be read not the system config.
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> appdirs covers the location of more type of files, like cache and data.

Interesting - thanks for the comparison, I'll take a detailed look
next time I need this type of functionality.

Paul