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".config" seems like such a natural name for it that I assumed it must be taken by some other program so they couldn't use it. I would expect a ".meta" folder t
by Noumenon72 3y ago
".config" seems like such a natural name for it that I assumed it must be taken by some other program so they couldn't use it. I would expect a ".meta" folder to hold things like release history, a graph of the number of files in the project over time, links to external design documents, and other facts "about" the project. Not config files used by the project.
- TrueDuality 3y agoIt kind of is... There is a formal standard that everyone ignores called XDG which defines the ".config" directory along with a few other handy common ones.
- mftrhu 3y agoThe XDG base directory specification defines a .config directory for user-specific configuration files (e.g. tmux.conf, i3's config file, a global gitignore file). This proposed standard would be for project-specific configuration files (e.g. a project-local .gitignore, .dir-locals.el, .mypy.ini).