[darcs-users] Mac OSX testers wanted: darcs unstable uses standard cache location

[Josh Tilles]

As a Mac OS X user & a fan of using $XDG_*, I think it would be better to adhere to the spec:

$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.

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$XDG_CACHE_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific non-essential data files should be stored. If $XDG_CACHE_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.cache should be used.

(from http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html)

That said, I completely agree that an appropriate value for $XDG_CACHE_HOME on a Mac is ~/Library/Caches; it's even defined in my dotfiles that way.

On Jul 19, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've just pushed to screened (ie http://darcs.net) a patch that makes
> darcs use a more standard cache location (
> http://bugs.darcs.net/patch1080 ):
> 
> This patch basically makes darcs using ~/.cache/darcs/ instead of
> ~/.darcs/cache. Unless $XDG_CACHE_HOME is set, in which case it
> will use $XDG_CACHE_HOME/darcs/.
> 
> If $XDG_CACHE_HOME is set but does not exist, or if it
> is not set and ~/.cache does not exist, the missing directory
> is created with permissions 0700.
> 
> Under for Mac OSX, this patch makes darcs use the directory
> ~/Library/Caches/, which is the current norm.
> 
> Can someone using Mac OSX please try it?
> 
> Guillaume
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