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ActiveState / appdirs

A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/appdirs
MIT License
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macOS `user_config_dir` goes against OS guidelines #185

Open probablykasper opened 2 years ago

probablykasper commented 2 years ago

appdirs.user_config_dir() points to ~/Library/Preferences on macOS: https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs/blob/193a2cbba58cce2542882fcedd0e49f6763672ed/appdirs.py#L186-L199

This goes against OS guidelines:

Preferences

Contains the user’s preferences. You should never create files in this directory yourself. To get or set preference values, you should always use the NSUserDefaults class or an equivalent system-provided interface.

src: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/MacOSXDirectories/MacOSXDirectories.html