feat(deno_dir): check $XDG_CACHE_HOME before defaulting to system cache path#73
feat(deno_dir): check $XDG_CACHE_HOME before defaulting to system cache path#73dsherret merged 1 commit intodenoland:mainfrom uncenter:feat/xdg
$XDG_CACHE_HOME before defaulting to system cache path#73Conversation
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| let root: PathBuf = if let Some(root) = maybe_custom_root { | ||
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| } else if let Some(xdg_cache_dir) = sys.env_var_path("XDG_CACHE_HOME") { | ||
| xdg_cache_dir.join("deno") |
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I'm not sure this is supposed to be done for macos. It's explicitly avoided here: https://github.com/dsherret/sys_traits/blob/32596b234a024ba66ec2c43bf66faf220c7d9687/src/impls/real.rs#L100
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For example, go doesn't seem to respect xdg_cache_home on mac: https://pkg.go.dev/os#UserCacheDir
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(It feels ok to just support this unconditionally if it's set though. I'm just not familiar enough with what's supposed to be done here.)
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Generally I think if the user has gone out of their way to explicitly set the XDG_* variables, we can assume they wish for programs to respect them. (This is only the case for command line programs, and not GUI applications - those generally don't and aren't expected to respect XDG variables on macOS.)
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You can also search through site-wide GitHub issues for "macos" and "xdg" and find many open issues requesting support for it on macOS. Personally I've created a crate (https://github.com/uncenter/user_dirs) and an npm library (https://github.com/uncenter/xdirs) for doing this the "correct" (in my opinion) way.
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Not to add noise to this PR/thread, but I would really want to see this merged*. I have an issue open in (denoland/deployctl#134) since 2022, which based on this and this PR would finally be resolved.
*I get that it’s not the default on macOS, but as @uncenter mentioned: if a user goes out of their way to keep their $HOME clean, that should be respected.
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Discussed internally. Going to merge. Thanks!
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As the title says, respects explicitly defined XDG variables by checking the user's preferred cache location before defaulting to the OS cache path. I believe this closes my downstream issue denoland/deno#27964.