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XDG Base Directory Support #2509

Closed ghost closed 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

Describe the bug

Fastai does not respect the XDG base directory specifications.

Expected behavior Configuration and data should not be in the same folder. Configuration should be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and fall back to .config/fastai/. Data should be in $XDG_DATA_HOME and fallback to .local/share/fastai/. This is a breaking change so I hope at least fastai2 respects the spec in the future.

Additional context

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders https://web.archive.org/web/20180827160401/plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp

sgugger commented 4 years ago

There is no plan to respect that spec in the future, no. None of the software we depend on seems to be following it either. In general we use the forum to discuss feature requests, so I encourage you to open a topic there if you want to discuss this further with the community.

ghost commented 4 years ago

None of the software we depend on seems to be following it either.

Just curious, I raised this issue partially because pytorch is pretty good about it, do you have any dependencies in mind that don't follow the spec? It seems like the only ones I can see are some dev dependencies but that doesn't matter to end users.

sgugger commented 4 years ago

I was mostly thinking about jupyter.