Adhere to XDG Base Desktop Specification

[hyperupcall]

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haii,
i was wondering if there is any interest to adhere to the xdg base desktop specification (on linux), even if it's just a little bit? right now i see a ~/.yo-rc-global.json file created in the home directory. i mainly would like to see it in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/yeoman/yo-rc-global.json (~/.config/yeoman/yo-rc-global.json) to clean up the home directory. i think it would be best for compatibility if we read make the config resolve to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/yeoman/yo-rc-global.json, but only if the ~/.yo-rc-global.json file doesn't exist - thoughts?. i can make a pr if needed :) more info on the xdg base directory specification can be found here

thankies,
edwin

[mshima]

@eankeen seems like yo never writes to .yo-rc-global.json.
Fell free to create a PR here at generator first, then you can update yo to read from the updated version.

[mshima]

If an old generator is called, it will keep writing to $home/.yo-rc-global.json.
So:

• generator 1 till 4.11.0 will write exclusively to $home/.yo-rc-global.json.
• generator 4.11.0 < x < 5 should write to $home/.yo-rc-global.json if it contains the generator namespace, otherwise it should write to ~/.config/yeoman/yo-rc-global.json
• generator >= 5 should move the generator namespace to ~/.config/yeoman/yo-rc-global.json if it exist at $home/.yo-rc-global.json and don't exists at ~/.config/yeoman/yo-rc-global.json

yo should do a simple merge between both configs.

$home/.yo-rc-global.json will not exist if every generator is >4.11.0

I am going to release 4.11.0 tomorrow, I can do a 4.12.0 for this feature, otherwise this will be last 4.x release.

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