#5966: getAppUserDataDirectory does not respect XDG specification
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Reporter: ordcoder | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: libraries/directory
Version: 7.4.1 | Keywords:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Failure: Incorrect result at runtime | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Blocking:
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getAppUserDataDirectory function from System.Directory module returns path
to a dot-dir under home directory. This swamps home with many hidden
directories, when there are many applications installed. There is
[http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
XDG specification] for this situation, which suggests using $XDG_DATA_HOME
environment variable.
So, getAppUserDataDirectory should behave approximately like this when
$XDG_DATA_HOME is set:
{{{
getAppUserDataDirectory appName = do
path <- getEnv "XDG_DATA_HOME"
return (path++'/':appName)
}}}
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5966>
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