Rust xdg-user-dir Projects

directories-rs

1 500 0.0 Rust

a mid-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows

Project mention: [ANN] Released `config-finder`, a crate to easily help your CLI app find all its config files | reddit.com/r/rust | 2022-11-06

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:
dirs-rs

2 415 2.7 Rust

a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows

Project mention: Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-07-29

There are several libraries that handle directory for you in the appropriate OS-specific manner.
One Rust example being https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-rs
> The library provides the location of these directories by leveraging the mechanisms defined by
> the XDG base directory and the XDG user directory specifications on Linux and Redox
> the Known Folder API on Windows
> the Standard Directories guidelines on macOS
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