From: Piotr Szotkowski <chastell@...>
Date: 2011-06-19T05:26:18+09:00
Subject: Re: default config file location

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Chad Perrin:

> Is there a "better" way to specify
> a default config file location than this?

> File.expand_path('~') + "/#{filename}"

Depending on how =E2=80=98good=E2=80=99 you want to be with regards to
modern systems adhering to the FreeDesktop standard=C2=B9. :)

The last time I needed to take care of this (YAML =E2=80=98database=E2=80=99
with signatures for signore, a signature randomiser) I settled on

(ENV['XDG_DATA_HOME'] or File.expand_path '~/.local/share') + '/signore/sig=
natures.yml'

=E2=80=93 so for a config file I=E2=80=99d go with

(ENV['XDG_CONFIG_HOME'] or File.expand_path '~/.config') + "/#{appname}/#{c=
onfigfilename}"

=C2=B9 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.ht=
ml

=E2=80=94 Piotr Szotkowski
--=20
We tried that One Encoding To Rule Them All in Java, and it was
a failure. We tried it again with a different encoding in Java 5,
and it was a failure. We tried it in .NET, and it was a failure. The
Python community is currently in the process of realizing it was a failure.
Five years of work on PHP 6 were completely destroyed because of this. (At
least they realized it *before* releasing it into the wild.)
                                                 [J=C3=B6rg W Mittag, ruby-=
talk]




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