From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Jan_Dj=C3=A4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: persistent storage for Emacs packages Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:35:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <201310202119.19244.thomas@koch.ro> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382348160 2597 80.91.229.3 (21 Oct 2013 09:36:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thomas Koch , Tyler Smith , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 21 11:36:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VYBu6-0005vx-H4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:36:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39069 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYBu5-0006NR-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 05:36:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35606) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYBtw-0006N0-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 05:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYBtq-0003Jq-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 05:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail01.bdtv.se ([176.10.222.34]:49157) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYBtp-0003J3-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 05:35:45 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 12718 invoked by uid 89); 21 Oct 2013 09:35:40 -0000 Original-Received: from h-46-59-42-57.na.cust.bahnhof.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) (boel.djarv@bdtv.se@46.59.42.57) by mail01.bdtv.se with ESMTPA; 21 Oct 2013 09:35:40 -0000 Original-Received: from [172.16.2.151] (unknown [176.57.193.190]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D3491A008F; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:35:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (11A501) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 176.10.222.34 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164410 Archived-At: Hello.=20 > 21 okt 2013 kl. 08:32 skrev Glenn Morris : >=20 > Jan Dj=C3=A4rv wrote: >=20 >> The freedesktop standards tend to come and go and change quite a bit. >=20 > Really? No stable state reached after 5 years? >=20 The latest version is about 3 years old. That is pretty stable for a freede= sktop specifikation. But this spec. is about one page long... >> Are we contemplating this "standard" for non-freedesktop systems also? >=20 > 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 Freedeskto= p systems (how can we know that?), old style for the rest? Jan D.=20 >=20 >>> 21 okt 2013 kl. 01:16 skrev Glenn Morris : >>>=20 >>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D583