(moderated summary by WG)

Context

Plan of Action

In-ecosystem resources

• Common directories
  • app-dirs-rs
  • app-dirs2
  • directories
• Read/write config
  • configure
  • config
  • twelf
• keyring for storing passwords

External inspiration

• cosmiconfig

Challenges

• Cross platform paths in config files. See also Cross-platform file system abstractions #10
• Integrating information from environment, command line arguments, defaults, and cascading config files
• Every existing applications is probably littered with special cases, migration schemes and special rules how settings are handled. I'm not sure it is possible to encode all this into an API without making it extremely hard to use.
• Good error messages, see should serde provide a trait to standardize text position in errors? serde-rs/serde#1184

@spacekookie's original poist

In the first meeting, we discussed the task of file management on different platforms (particularly configurations) and how it can be made better.

@Eijebong summarised it like this

If I need a config file, I don't want to know that it should be ${XDG_CONFIG:${XDG_HOME}/.config:/home/${user}/.config on linux, %AppDir%/App/ on windows and something else on osx [...]

There is a crate for "determing system configuration" (app-dirs-rs) but it seems unmaintained and not up to date