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Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-di
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory |
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Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:34:50 +0300 |
> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:21:10 +0100
>
> > In general, I feel that xdg.el is currently too Freedesktop-specific,
> > and "needs work" if we want to make it a portable mainstream package
> > useful on all the supported platforms. (There's also a strange
> > comment about Emacs "not having a notion of l10n/i18n", which is
> > simply wrong, so support for localestring could/should also be
> > improved.) Patches welcome.
>
> What kind of non-Freedesktop-specific portability do you envision?
The fallback directory names are Unix-specific; the assumption that
all the settings are necessarily in a file which has a very particular
format is specific to Freedesktop; The file associations are only >
supported in XDG way of their definitions; etc.
Of course, one could argue that this package supports the XDG spec and
nothing else, and that is completely legitimate. But in that case
using it for general-purpose Emacs features like finding our files and
directories is questionable, and should IMO be restricted to the
absolute minimum -- more or less what Paul proposed in his patch.
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Noam Postavsky, 2019/07/02
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/02
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/23
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Amin Bandali, 2019/07/26
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/27
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Paul Eggert, 2019/07/27
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/07/27
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/28
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/07/28
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/28
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Elias MÃ¥rtenson, 2019/07/28
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/28
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Elias MÃ¥rtenson, 2019/07/29
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/29