Tracking: Support for platformdirs (platform-specific system directories) such as XDG Paths
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- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
Many people would prefer cargo/rustup conform to various platform-specific standards for storing configuration. cc https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/2127
(This issue was originally about a different subject, but is now an XDG etc. thread, some comments may make less sense out of context).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked cargo pull request #2127 and rustup pull request #5056, then review the issue comments for the current XDG and platform-directory scope. Done means the agreed platform-specific configuration locations are supported consistently by rustup.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100