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Support $XDG_CONFIG_HOME on macOS

See original GitHub issue

I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
I have searched the documentation and believe that my question is not covered.

Feature Request

Follow configurations under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME on macOS too!

Current situation

Although macOS is a genuine UNIX OS and the document says

For Unix, we follow the XDG spec

you don’t, on macOS.

https://github.com/sdispater/poetry/blob/ce124603e57ac8ede4addc6f96fc810a82090259/poetry/utils/appdirs.py#L128-L132

Rationale to support it

I’m using $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to manage configurations.

$ ls $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
alacritty/  configstore/  git/  iterm/      micro/  tmux/
anyenv/     fish/         hub   karabiner/  ssh/

As you see, many tools like git, fish, anyenv and karabiner-elements supports XDG by nature (some are not by nature, but can be configured).

I believe this is good strategy since it’s more suitable to version-control in my “dotfiles” repository GitHub.

I know this will be breaking change, but at least, I want some way to configure it (such as env variable like PYPOETRY_FOLLOW_XDG).

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:25
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

5reactions

wangkevcommented, Dec 9, 2020

Have there been any developments here? Would be interested in this as well.

4reactions

Townkcommented, Jan 4, 2020

I created a PR to solve this issue, but since I don’t know it is considered a new feature or a bug fix, I create it against the develop branch. If this can be a bug fix for 1.0, I can submit another PR:

~#1507~ #1823

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