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7620 :: Get system wide config dir

• lhupfeldt (orginal) [2021-03-13T18:35:08+01:00] view original

  Hi, is there a way to get the system wide config dir, e.g. /etc on Linux? Even better, is there a way to get the config dir search path, e.g. [getConfigDir(), getSystemConfigDir()] (assuming a getSystemConfigDir)

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• Yardanico (orginal) [2021-03-13T19:29:35+01:00] view original

  I don't think that there's a standard way on Linux to specify the system-wide config directory.

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• lhupfeldt (orginal) [2021-03-13T19:52:27+01:00] view original

  You are probably right that many languages/std-libraries do not provide it, but the location (hopeflly) should be well defined on any OS. On Linux it is part of the XDG specification. The appdirs package provides it for Python.

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• Yardanico (orginal) [2021-03-13T19:59:16+01:00] view original

  For getting an env variable you can just use https://nim-lang.org/docs/os.html#getEnv%2Cstring%2Cstring

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• lhupfeldt (orginal) [2021-03-13T21:04:01+01:00] view original

  I was looking for an standard OS agnostic way of getting the directories.

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• Yardanico (orginal) [2021-03-13T21:12:54+01:00] view original

  Well, I'm not aware of any stdlib module/Nimble package that does that so feel free to port appdirs to Nim :)

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• shirleyquirk (orginal) [2021-03-14T00:21:56+01:00] view original

  on *nix (even weirdos like GoboLinux and NixOs) : at the very least a symlink to /etc exists. /etc/xdg probably exists. $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS could be a thing (not on my machine)

  on osX: /etc exists and is used for some things but i think its readonly. homebrew uses /usr/local/etc, native apps use /Library/Preferences, /Library/Application Support, or /Library

  on windows: almost certainly C:/ProgramData or the %ALLUSERSPROFILE% environment variable on anything since Vista. or SHGetKnownFolderPath(&FolderID_ProgramData,0,NULL,&path) because of course theres an api for that.

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• lhupfeldt (orginal) [2021-03-14T10:44:24+01:00] view original

  The appdirs Python package has all this logic, so probably a good starting point for a nim package.

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• shirleyquirk (orginal) [2021-03-14T15:08:51+01:00] view original

  until then, you can always pyImport("appdirs") with nimpy

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