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  • Committer: Martin Packman
  • Date: 2012-02-01 13:24:42 UTC
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Currently, Bazaar stores its configuration files and plugins under the
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directory ~/.bazaar on unix installs. On Windows, this is %APPDATA%/Bazaar/2.0.
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With the XDG Base Directory specification
 
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directory ~/.bazaar on unix installs.  On Windows, this is
 
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%APPDATA%/Bazaar/2.0 and on Mac OS X, the directory is ~/.bazaar.  With the
 
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XDG Base Directory specification
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(http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html), many
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Linux and Unix platforms have tried to centralize configuration files under a
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specific directory referred to as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.  This has a default value
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Bazaar would like to be a good Unix citizen by using these standard locations
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for configuration files.  As such, we should support that location, but not
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require it.  Note that the following descriptions do not apply
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to Windows which should use their own native configuration
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locations.  (On Windows, we currently do this by working under %APPDATA%.
 
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to Windows or Mac OS X which should use their own native configuration
 
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locations.  (On Windows, we currently do this by working under %APPDATA%.  The
 
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Mac OS X equivalent would be ~/Library/Application Support/Bazaar but there is
 
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also cultural support for ~/.bazaar on that platform.)
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* If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bazaar exists, use the files there for configuration,
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  noting in the log that we are doing so.  This allows individuals who would