[Enhancement] Directories and files should be in accordance with XDG base directory spec #157

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2013-05-17T12:09:04+02:00

omyno commented

2013-05-17 12:09:04 +02:00

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On Linux, Pybitmessage uses ~/.PyBitmessage. Instead, it should respect the XDG Base Directory Specification, which means ~/.config/pybitmessage ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME) for keys.dat and so on.

On Linux, Pybitmessage uses `~/.PyBitmessage`. Instead, it should respect the [XDG Base Directory Specification](http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html), which means `~/.config/pybitmessage` ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME) for keys.dat and so on.

r14c commented

2013-06-23 01:18:44 +02:00

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I agree, I'll put that on my TODO list.

r14c commented

2013-06-26 10:19:03 +02:00

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Rea sons, expressed better than I could.

(I'll put in a pull request when I implement migration.)

[Rea](http://stick.gk2.sk/2009/03/the-ugly-duckling-called-xdg_config_home/)[son](http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/38871)s, expressed better than I could. (I'll put in a pull request when I implement migration.)

r14c commented

2013-06-26 11:25:17 +02:00

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Sorry about the mess, I forgot to base my changes off of Bitmessage/PyBitmessage master

Sorry about the mess, I forgot to base my changes off of `Bitmessage/PyBitmessage master`

nimdahk commented

2013-08-13 00:55:51 +02:00

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Please close this issue.

omyno commented

2013-08-14 02:26:14 +02:00

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xj9, thank you very much for your patch. 👍
I think this bug report should stay open until every file has its right place according to the XDG standard:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pybitmessage: keys.dat
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/pybitmessage: debug.log and knownnodes.dat
$XDG_DATA_HOME/pybitmessage: messages.dat

xj9, thank you very much for your patch. :+1: I think this bug report should stay open until every file has its [right place](http://ploum.net/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders/) according to the XDG standard: - `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pybitmessage`: keys.dat - `$XDG_CACHE_HOME/pybitmessage`: debug.log and knownnodes.dat - `$XDG_DATA_HOME/pybitmessage`: messages.dat

PeterSurda commented

2017-02-22 18:17:47 +01:00

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Hasn't this been fixed already?

PeterSurda commented

2017-02-26 12:25:11 +01:00

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Ok, so now it puts everything into XDG_CONFIG_HOME, if the variable exists. While I understand what the standard wants to achieve, I am not sure it's a good fit for PyBitmessage, since the directory structure would differ from portable mode. It needs to be investigated.

PeterSurda commented

2020-09-30 11:55:20 +02:00

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I agree with my previous post, solitting this into 3 directories doesn't fit into the design of PyBitmessage.

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