Support XDG_CONFIG_HOME request

[mcritchlow]

Would you consider supporting the standard XDG_CONFIG_HOME ~/.config for pius? This would prevent yet another dot directory in HOME.

It looks like there's been some work in this context before that supports backward compatibility for older config files, but I'm not familiar enough with the codebase to take a stab at it myself.

Either way, thanks for the great tool.

[F9Alejandro]

You can change the constants.py in libpius directory for the variable "PIUS_HOME". So instead of it being: PIUS_HOME = os.path.join(HOME, '.pius') it will be: PIUS_HOME = os.path.join(HOME, '.config') That should be the only file that needs to be changed. Just use the commands to build and install as normal: ./setup.py build && sudo ./setup.py install

[jaymzh]

I will add support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME - just need to get around to doing this and adding the proper back-compat stuff

[F9Alejandro]

Doing a bit of testing should be able to tell if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is an env variable, if not then it will check to see if directory .config exists, else it will stick with the fallback of .pius

[F9Alejandro]

104 should contain the enhancement you are looking for.

[jaymzh]

Support is now in the 3_work branch in https://github.com/jaymzh/pius/commit/f4b4e0924ac68cc551a557bcfea58f9390a4ca4a and will be in PIUS 3.x

[jaymzh]

3.0.0 is now out which fixes this.

[mcritchlow]

@jaymzh - Thank you!