Support XDG base directory specification #5807
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I'd be fine with this if it were supported farther up the chain. DDEV uses https://pkg.go.dev/os#UserHomeDir to figure out the homedir While XDG base directory is a super-valid idea, it's really linux-oriented, right? And DDEV is very much for many different environments. |
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It looks like you could (and should) use UserConfigDir instead of UserHomeDir. |
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Sounds promising. Interested in doing a PR? |
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Thanks, I took a crack at a PR: #5813 It just respects XDG_CONFIG_HOME for now. You may want to adopt other parts of XDG in the future, but this is good enough for me. |
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I'm frustrated when software such as DDEV doesn't respect the XDG base directory specification, leading to a cluttered home directory fully of one-off config directories like
~/.ddev.Describe your solution
Follow the XDG base directory spec. For instance, in the absence of any XDG environment variables, move
~/.ddevto~/.config/ddev. If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, move~/.ddevto$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ddev.As a transitional solution (so this doesn't need to be a breaking change), load and use the
~/.ddevdirectory if it already exists instead of following XDG_CONFIG_HOME.Note that there are other XDG directories besides the config home; I haven't investigated whether DDEV can or should make use of those.
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