Greetings earthlings, I'm contemplating adding XDG basedirs support to GNU Alive and GNU Serveez, so the obvious approach is classic modularity: write the functionality once and somehow make it available. It's no big deal to start w/ ‘define-module’, but then the questions begin:
- What is a good module name? - What package does it belong to? - Does the use case justify keeping all this code in memory? - Is this really "write once"? - What about Lisp programs? - What about programs (in any language) that can ‘read’ sexps? The functionality is basically using ‘getenv’ and ‘parse-path’ to produce easily-serialized data (strings and lists of strings), amenable to piping and other textual manipulations. So, why not a standalone program? As to the packaging, for a bit i mulled over a "XDG Utils" package with only one program to start, but that would be succumbing to my bad habit of overengineering things, so i'm glad to say that bit was short-lived. Anyway, here it is:
xdgdirs
Description: application/scheme
Installation is simple:
# install xdgdirs /usr/local/bin
The program supports ‘--help’ and ‘--version’, which must suffice in
lieu of proper documentation, for now. Maybe some future release...
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