On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:57:36PM +0000, Mindaugas wrote:
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #38611 (project pspp):
I think PSPPIRE should read [the stat file] $HOME/.pspp/rc
(why not $HOME/.config/pspp/rc or $HOME/.config/psppire/rc ?)
I think this is a good question.
I suppose there is historical precident that user config files go in
$HOME/.<application-name>
but I am not aware of any specification which mandates or even suggests this.
XDG Base Directory Specification suggests $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (which defaults to
$HOME/.config ) Now the XDG specs are historically used for GUI applications,
which is why we have $HOME/.config/psppirerc which stores the users preferred
window sizes and positions. This has the advantage that the same psppirerc
file can be used when the session occurs over a remote login.
However I see now reason why the XDG recommendations cannot be used for non-gui
applications.
On the other hand I think most other GNU applications (and many non-GNU ones)
use $HOME/.<application-name> eg: ~/.emacs ~/.gnucash ~/.gnash ~/.gstreamer
So we'd be breaking a tradition if we started using something else.
Personally I don't particularly like the proliferation of .* files in my home
directory,
but I think it's a tradition that will be hard to break.
J'
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