[MNG-6603] XDG Base Directory Specification support

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.6.0
• Fix Version/s: Issues to be reviewed for 4.x
• Component/s: Settings
• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Julien Nicoulaud
• Created: 26/Feb/19 13:40
• Updated: 19/Jul/21 17:23

Description

Could Maven please follow the XDG Base Directory Specification for the configuration/data directory on linux?

More infos here:

• http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
• http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory#Support