Support XDG spec on macOS for command line apps about go-appdir HOT 2 CLOSED

I think it would actually make more sense to always use env variables in your app (or use an XDG package, but it's so small it's probably not worth it).

I agree that does make more sense actually :D. cli apps on windows would probably use XDG too (although I haven't seen any discussion on it), so that shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for the suggestion about that.

One last thought is that it might be good to update the readme to mention that this package is only for gui applications, and that cli apps should instead use/implement the xdg spec since that's what expected. Seems like there's been some confusion for cli apps about using appdir-like packages.

from go-appdir.

Hmm, I'm not sure. This package is primarily for cross-platform GUI applications that want to use the preferred directories for the platform they run on. On macOS, it makes sense to use Apple's guidelines.

I suspect CLI apps hardcode XDG anyway. So I think it would actually make more sense to always use env variables in your app (or use an XDG package, but it's so small it's probably not worth it). This comment seems to confirm this idea:

I would strongly expect any command line tool to use XDG standard location for config.

from go-appdir.