dirs
a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows (by xdg-rs)
directories-rs
a mid-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows (by dirs-dev)
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| dirs | directories-rs | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 167 | 478 | |
| 0.6% | 2.5% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
dirs
Posts with mentions or reviews of dirs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-16.
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 2022-11-06.
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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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dirs and directories-rs you can also consider the following projects:
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications
wasmer - 🚀 The leading WebAssembly Runtime supporting WASI and Emscripten
espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. [Moved to: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty]
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.