[jira] [Comment Edited] (MNG-6603) XDG Base Directory Specification support

["Ignacio Taranto (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ignacio Taranto edited comment on MNG-6603 at 7/18/21, 3:07 PM:
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Any news about this?

If you think that splitting the contents of ~_~/.m2~_ between cache, config and user data is not feasible to do right now, *at the bare minimum* you could put everything under {{_$XDG_DATA_HOME/maven_}} (with a fallback to {{_/.local/share/maven_}})


was (Author: itaranto):
Any news about this?

If you think that splitting the contents of _~/.m2_ between cache, config and user data is not feasible to do right now, *at the bare minimum* you could put everything under {{_$XDG_DATA_HOME/maven_}} (with a fallback to {{_~/.local/share/maven_}})

> XDG Base Directory Specification support
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-6603
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6603
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Settings
>    Affects Versions: 3.6.0
>            Reporter: Julien Nicoulaud
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 4.x
>
>
> Could Maven please follow the XDG Base Directory Specification for the configuration/data directory on linux?
> More infos here:
>  * [http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html]
>  * [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg]
>  * [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory#Support]
>  



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