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Re:No_color by loeg on Saturday February 26, 2022 @08:05PM (#30484186)
Nowadays well-behaved apps tend to use a single file or directory under ~/.config/. I believe it is a FreeDesktop.org standard: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/a...
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Re:No_color by ziml77 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @09:42PM (#30484828)
And on Windows that has just made the mess even worse. Applications writing to %USERPROFILE%\Documents, %APPDATA%, %LOCALAPPDATA%, %USERPROFILE%, and %USERPROFILE%\.config

Every language needs something like this library as part of the standard library https://pypi.org/project/appdirs/ It would at least make it a little more likely that files end up where they should.

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