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Why doesn't astropy use ~/.config/astropy by default (on Unix-like systems)?

See original GitHub issue

If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, astropy will look for configuration files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/astropy/. However, it will not look for configuration files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/astropy/config/. Similarly, if $XDG_CACHE_HOME is set, astropy will look for cache files in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/astropy/, not $XDG_CACHE_HOME/astropy/cache. Why does the layout of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/astropy/ have to be different from the layout of $HOME/.astropy/, which contains config/ and cache/ directories? Unless one knows that the layout is different, one would expect that $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/astropy/config/ and $XDG_CACHE_HOME/astropy/cache/ would be the directories to contain configuration and cache files.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:11 (11 by maintainers)

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Cadaircommented, Mar 30, 2020

I agree it’s not easy, but this bug should be fixed which is why I don’t want to close it. 😄

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Cadaircommented, Mar 30, 2020

We should absolutely do #8245 and I am -1 on closing this as wont-fix.

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