GNU bug report logs - #583
Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ferkiwi+a <at> gmail.com

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:05:06 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00637.html

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Message #16 received at 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: Heintzmann.Eric <at> free.fr, 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#583: XDG basedir specification
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:31:02 +0200

> From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 20:06:34 +0100
> Cc: 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 8 dec 2012 kl. 13:18 skrev Eric Heintzmann <Heintzmann.Eric <at> free.fr>:
> 
> > What is planned now about FreeDesktop XDG basedir specification for Emacs?
> > 
> > 
> > http://ploum.net/post/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders
> > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
> > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
> 
> Hopefully nothing, as the free desktop specs in this area keeps changing and never reach a stable state.

I agree, FWIW.
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