"Robert P. Goldman" <rpgoldman@sift.net> writes:
Jason Miller wrote:
Hi,
With $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS unset, (uiop:user-configuration-directories) returns only $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/common-lisp/
However, with it set to "/etc/xdg" it returns a list that starts with "/etc/xdg/common-lisp"
There are two problems with this:
1) The XDG Base Directory Specification says that "If $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to /etc/xdg should be used."
2) My understanding of uiop:user-configuration-directories is that it's listed in order of importance, but, from the XDG spec:
"The base directory defined by $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is considered more important than any of the base directories defined by $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS"
So, what I think is correct is that with $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS set it should return a list starting with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, followed by the lists in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, and with it not set, should return a list of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME followed by /etc/xdg/common-lisp/
Even if that's not correct, due to #1 the current implementation is definitely wrong.
Regards, Jason
1. Please put a ticket to this effect on the launchpad bugs page, https://launchpad.net/asdf.
2. I am not sure that this is a bug. The XDG specifies how a general framework for user configuration should operate. But AFAICT UIOP:USER-CONFIGURATION-DIRECTORIES doesn't claim to return something specified by this standard, but rather, claims to return a list of user configuration directories *FOR COMMON LISP* that somehow comply with the specification. I.e., adding "common-lisp/" is acceptable.
But it's used with in-first-directory in in-user-configuration-directory: (defun in-user-configuration-directory (x &key (direction :input)) "return pathname under user configuration directory, subpathname X" (in-first-directory (user-configuration-directories) x :direction direction)) hence the problem. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk