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Document changes to MacOS's configuration paths, compared to last appdirs release

See original GitHub issue

There’s an unannounced behaviour change here (using Library/Preferences instead of Library/Application Support like it used to), and… well, it’d be a good idea to flag this all over the documentation. 😃

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:20 (14 by maintainers)

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laydaycommented, Apr 19, 2022

IMO, this change should be reverted. App configuration on macOS does not belong in Library/Preferences, which is reserved for plist files generated by calling the “NSUserDefaults class or an equivalent system-provided interface”. Apps should never write in Preferences directly. The nearest Mac equivalent to XDG .config was and remains Application Support.

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Jackenmencommented, Mar 10, 2022

I’m looking at it but the line you link to in 2.0.2 is the implementation for Windows, not macOS. Here’s the correct place and it uses ~/Library/Preferences same as 2.1.0: https://github.com/platformdirs/platformdirs/blob/2.0.2/platformdirs.py#L243

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