From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>,
Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: persistent storage for Emacs packages
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:35:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B587ABA4-E2BB-4C8D-A98F-321D322A163E@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x7eh7fnnga.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hello.
> 21 okt 2013 kl. 08:32 skrev Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:
>
> Jan Djärv wrote:
>
>> The freedesktop standards tend to come and go and change quite a bit.
>
> Really? No stable state reached after 5 years?
>
The latest version is about 3 years old. That is pretty stable for a freedesktop specifikation. But this spec. is about one page long...
>> Are we contemplating this "standard" for non-freedesktop systems also?
>
> Noboby shows any sign of actually _doing_ anything, so I wouldn't worry.
It would be good to know what the policy is in case someone would like to do something. OSX-style dirs on OSX, W32-style on W32, XDG-style on Freedesktop systems (how can we know that?), old style for the rest?
Jan D.
>
>>> 21 okt 2013 kl. 01:16 skrev Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:
>>>
>>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=583
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-21 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-18 16:45 persistent storage for Emacs packages Tyler Smith
2013-10-18 17:44 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-18 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 22:37 ` Josh
2013-10-18 22:49 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-10-18 23:00 ` Josh
[not found] ` <18713_1382137341_5261BDFD_18713_15_2_da88b78b76204dbcbbf9b5a4acbe6a0c@EXHUB2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-19 1:37 ` Tyler Smith
[not found] ` <19473_1382126090_5261920A_19473_52_3_0b1fb8bede554cb79d9303697d2056a2@EXHUB2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-18 20:01 ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-19 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 22:45 ` Karl Fogel
2013-10-18 22:48 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-11-21 16:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-22 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-25 13:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-25 16:58 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-11-25 19:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-20 19:19 ` Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: " Thomas Koch
2013-10-20 23:16 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-21 5:07 ` Jan Djärv
2013-10-21 6:32 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-21 7:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-10-21 9:35 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2013-10-21 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-21 13:31 ` John Yates
2013-10-21 15:25 ` Barry Fishman
[not found] ` <17329_1382360340_52652514_17329_164_1_1c38477173ab4b6cb80a8c50bd6dd0e9@EXHUB2010-1.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-21 13:19 ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-21 18:09 ` Josh
[not found] ` <20874_1382379012_52656E04_20874_7_7_6906997aba2b4fc2b717f1f695c0e3df@EXHUB2010-2.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-21 18:24 ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-21 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-21 20:54 ` Josh
2013-10-21 21:00 ` Glenn Morris
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