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Returning `Path` instead of `str` instances

See original GitHub issue

As mentioned in https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs/issues/79, I’ve been working on another fork of appdirs, but would rather hold off on publishing that and focus all efforts in one place.

I mostly have two changes in places:

Drop support for ancient python versions (there’s little point in a new library supporting Pythons that re long past their EOL, and that just holds back on keeping the library alive).
Change the return type of directories to Path instance, to make usage on consumer libraries easier. This kinda means it’s not a 100% drop-in replacement, but rather an upgrade (e.g.: like a major).

Maybe it would make sense to have a platformdirs==1.0.0 release, which is functionally identical to appdirs (to allow seamless switching), and then start merging in any non-backwards-compatible changes. Thoughts?

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gaborbernatcommented, Jul 22, 2021

user_data_path
user_config_path
user_cache_path
user_state_path
user_log_path
site_data_path
site_config_path

And yes.

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gaborbernatcommented, Jul 23, 2021

Done by #27.

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