Re: Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: persistent storage for Emacs packages

[Jan Djärv]

Hello. 

> 21 okt 2013 kl. 08:32 skrev Glenn Morris <address@hidden>:
> 
> Jan Djärv wrote:
> 
>> The freedesktop standards tend to come and go and change quite a bit.
> 
> Really? No stable state reached after 5 years?
> 

The latest version is about 3 years old.  That is pretty stable for a 
freedesktop specifikation. But this spec. is about one page long...

>> Are we contemplating this "standard" for non-freedesktop systems also?
> 
> Noboby shows any sign of actually _doing_ anything, so I wouldn't worry.

It would be good to know what the policy is in case someone would like to do 
something. OSX-style dirs on OSX, W32-style on W32, XDG-style on Freedesktop 
systems (how can we know that?), old style for the rest?

     Jan D. 

> 
>>> 21 okt 2013 kl. 01:16 skrev Glenn Morris <address@hidden>:
>>> 
>>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=583