Follow XDG Base Directory spec

[ribosomerocker]

Hello, I've recently started using emacs, getting into the ecosystem, and also learning common lisp. I've been recommended this plugin, and it seems to work really well, my only problem with this is the fact that there is - seemingly - both, no way to customise where the ~/.slime directory should be put in, preferably somewhere that complies with the XDG Base Directory spec. What I also dislike, but on a lesser level, is the fact that it doesn't do this by default.

[luismbo]

Where should it go?

[ribosomerocker]

It depends on what's being saved in the ~/.slime directory, to me, it looks like data, rather than configuration, so I suggest $XDG_DATA_HOME, and if that environment variable doesn't exist, just put it inside ~/.local/share, as that is what it defaults to

(Though if it's not data, the folder would be different, where it'd be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which defaults to ~/.config)

[luismbo]

ACK, thanks. There are also some caches there.

[ribosomerocker]

I'm sorry for the late response! XDG has $XDG_CACHE_HOME, which defaults to ~/.cache/

I suggest you try to load the XDG environment variables first, and if they are empty, just defaulting to the defaults of the environment variables, and I also suggest that you make seperate slime directories to put in them, e.g. $XDG_CACHE_HOME/slime/ would only have cache for slime, and I also XDG_DATA_HOME/slime for config files, etc.
Thank you for taking your time to look at this! I really appreciate it!

[ribosomerocker]

If you'd wish, I can create a pull-request for it?

[luismbo]

That sounds great, thanks.

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[11xx]

Hi, any news on this?

[PRESFIL]

Any updates on this?

[ron-at-swgy]

Writing to ~/.slime makes it impossible to port any lisp project using slime (or swank) to OpenBSD. The build system runs in a chroot and expects all build artifacts to go in a particular place.

While I think the requestor's suggestion of XDG_CACHE_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME are excellent, I would be happy with any means to specify where .slime should be located.

[ron-at-swgy]

After looking at the way the system is defined, there is no way to load a system depending on swank without attempting to create a "~/.slime" directory. Even if one sets the swank-loader:*fasl-directory* variable, it will not take effect until after the system is loaded (which attempts to create the default-fasl-dir)