xdg-rs / dirs

a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows
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Change repository name to `dirs-next` #18

Closed NickHackman closed 4 years ago

NickHackman commented 4 years ago

As mentioned on the Reddit post it makes sense to name the repository the same name as the crate, to avoid confusion and easier search-ability.

tesuji commented 4 years ago

There are disadvantages:

There are some alternative to avoid confusion and improve searching:

nmccarty commented 4 years ago

We've discussed this in our team meeting and feel that renaming the repository is not currently warranted.

We are open to revisiting this later if the name mismatch does turn out to cause friction.