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You might try convincing projects to adopt the XDG spec[1] instead, might be easier. Might be. I've been trying something similar using Apple's framework bund

You might try convincing projects to adopt the XDG spec[1] instead, might be easier. Might be. I've been trying something similar using Apple's framework bundle layout[2] and using XDG to point config files to ~/Library/ApplicationSupport etc, but programmers know better! Just spray whatever files you need into my home dir, developers, be my guest… [1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/a... [2] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFrameworks/Concepts/FrameworkAnatomy.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma...

BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Best way to make dev do that is to make it easy for them. E.G: I used to "spray my files in the home dir" for my apps, until I discovered "appdirs" (https://pypi.org/project/appdirs/1.4.0/ https://pypi.org/project/appdirs/1.4.0/). Once I had an easy way to always has a clean and correct path for my app config/data/tmp file, I just used it.