directories-rs
a mid-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows (by dirs-dev)
config-finder-rust
Rust crate to easily find config files and directories for your CLI application (by poliorcetics)
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| directories-rs | config-finder-rust | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | |
| 689 | 3 | |
| 4.8% | - | |
| 4.0 | 0.8 | |
| 7 months ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
directories-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of directories-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.
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Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
There are even libraries for that!
https://github.com/dirs-dev/directories-rs
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Use the XDG Base Directory Specification
At least for rust applications of your own, you can use the library https://github.com/dirs-dev/directories-rs to follow XDG on Linux as well as platform conventions on Mac and Windows.
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[ANN] Released `config-finder`, a crate to easily help your CLI app find all its config files
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised to see this pop up about two weeks after there was no response to this reply on #47: Support for using ~/.config on Mac for command line apps on directories-rs:
- "directories" crate version 4.0.0 broken on MacOS
config-finder-rust
Posts with mentions or reviews of config-finder-rust.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-06.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing directories-rs and config-finder-rust you can also consider the following projects:
dirs - a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows
rattler - Rust crates to work with the Conda ecosystem.
boxxy - boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.
xdg-ninja - A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories.
platformdirs - A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".
cibuildwheel - 🎡 Build Python wheels for all the platforms with minimal configuration.