On Sep 17, 2008, at 13:55 PM, Hongli Lai wrote:
Eric Hodel wrote:
No. It is not cross-platform.
Could you elaborate on this? As far as I know, there is no true
cross-platform standard on where to install user-specific files.
Installing to ~/.local as per the XDG standard doesn't violate any
existing standards, but does follow the standards which many Unix
desktop software is already following. Installing to ~/.local
doesn't break anything.
RubyGems already does sensible things to your home directory. There's
no reason to change RubyGems (and thus reeducate all its users) just
because there happens to be a standard out there that's popular this
month/year/decade.
Besides, installing to ~/.local makes the user's home folder less
messy.
RubyGems already uses dotfiles (.gem and .gemrc), so the only benefit
I see is that I the user gets a ton of files or directories in
~/.local that they don't normally see instead of ~/.
It would take a very large change to do this the right way, breaking
up the various things RubyGems stores in ~/.gem between data, config
and cache. Furthermore, XDG says nothing about what to do with
libraries.
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