Replace the dead appdirs dependency by platformdirs (#811)

Co-authored-by: James Hewitt <james.hewitt@gmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ The format mostly follows [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 
 - Remove EOL'd Python 3.7 (new minimum requirement is Python 3.8), add Python 3.12 testing
 - Adds optional `reply_to` option for email reporters (#794 by trevorshannon)
+- Replace the dead dependency `appdirs` with `platformdirs` (#811 by Maxime Werlen)
 
 ### Fixed
 

docs/source/dependencies.rst

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Mandatory Packages
 -  `minidb <https://thp.io/2010/minidb/>`__
 -  `requests <http://python-requests.org/>`__
 -  `keyring <https://github.com/jaraco/keyring/>`__
--  `appdirs <https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs>`__
+-  `platformdirs <https://github.com/platformdirs/platformdirs>`__
 -  `lxml <https://lxml.de>`__
 -  `cssselect <https://cssselect.readthedocs.io>`__
 

lib/urlwatch/cli.py

@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@
 import signal
 import sys
 
-from appdirs import AppDirs
+from platformdirs import PlatformDirs
 
 pkgname = 'urlwatch'
 urlwatch_dir = os.path.expanduser(os.path.join('~', '.' + pkgname))
-urlwatch_cache_dir = AppDirs(pkgname).user_cache_dir
+urlwatch_cache_dir = PlatformDirs(pkgname).user_cache_dir
 
 if not os.path.exists(urlwatch_dir):
-    urlwatch_dir = AppDirs(pkgname).user_config_dir
+    urlwatch_dir = PlatformDirs(pkgname).user_config_dir
 
 # Check if we are installed in the system already
 (prefix, bindir) = os.path.split(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])))

requirements.txt

@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ pyyaml
 minidb >= 2.0.6
 requests
 keyring
-appdirs
+platformdirs
 lxml
 cssselect

setup.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 m['name'] = 'urlwatch'
 m['author'], m['author_email'] = re.match(r'(.*) <(.*)>', m['author']).groups()
 m['description'], m['long_description'] = docs[0].strip().split('\n\n', 1)
-m['install_requires'] = ['minidb>=2.0.6', 'PyYAML', 'requests', 'keyring', 'appdirs', 'lxml', 'cssselect']
+m['install_requires'] = ['minidb>=2.0.6', 'PyYAML', 'requests', 'keyring', 'platformdirs', 'lxml', 'cssselect']
 if sys.platform == 'win32':
     m['install_requires'].extend(['colorama'])
 m['entry_points'] = {"console_scripts": ["urlwatch=urlwatch.cli:main"]}