XDG Base Directory Specification adherence #117
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This change alters the default behavior for zvm to adhere to the typical XDG specification. Windows and Mac are untouched, but the groundwork has been laid to allow a more native experience on those OSs.
Having consistent behavior across all operating systems is highlighted in the project at the moment, so I understand if you may not be interested in this PR. However, I think this project does a great job, but the program behaves differently from anything else on my system under linux.
With this PR, if you set the ZVM_PATH, behavior is identical to today. If you do not, all XDG_* variables will be honored, along with their defaults.
Symlinks to zvm, zig, and zls in ~/.local/bin
Config in ~/.config/zvm
Cache in ~/.cache/zvm
Data (currently just zvm binary itself) in ~/.local/zvm/share
State (zig and zls downloads) in ~/.local/zvm/state
I have not updated the installer, and I am happy to hear any suggestions you may have. Also willing to build out the Mac/Windows conventions, but I didn't need it and I wanted to know if you were interested in this first. 😀