XDG compliance for Unix/Linux (~/.config) #582
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…ult to ~/.config if not)
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Please also update the docs and add to NEWS and yourself to AUTHORS if you are not in. |
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There, I've now done both. |
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Failure was unrelated |
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So... with an unrelated failure, is there something I have to do to get the pull request built again? |
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Sorry for lag - probably simplest now is to add something to |
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Looks like a slow build. I'll try running the tests locally before I merge. |
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Currently, on everything but Windows, pip's configuration directory is located in
~/.pip. That is, a hidden directory in a user's home folder.This pull request attempts to move away from this and towards the XDG specification (available here: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html), which suggests that instead write configuration to
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS- which by default is~/.config. So I've modified locations.py to do so.I've also tried to ensure a migration path- if there is a pip.conf in the old
~/.pipfolder that will get copied over to~/.config/pipon pip's first run (after which it will be deleted).There are a few issues this raises though:
sudo pip install somepkg), pip will not look for a configuration file in your configuration folder but instead for one in/root/. This isn't a new issue (there are already long-open bugs like Provide a global (system-wide) config file. #309 about it), but as this pull request deals with config files.. I thought I'd mention it.