.julia directory at $HOME

[ghost]

julia should not create .juila directory at $HOME.

It should follow xdg directory guidelines.

[DilumAluthge]

Duplicate of #4630

[ghost]

like go, julia can have a ~/.config/julia/env for storing environment variables. so we can choose which directory to use.

[fredrikekre]

You can set JULIA_DEPOT_PATH of you are not happy with ~/.julia.

[ghost]

@fredrikekre thank you.

[KristofferC]

Does everything respect that? I don't think the repl log file would.

[DilumAluthge]

I believe that everything respects that environment variable.

$ ls ~/.julia
ls: /Users/dilum/.julia: No such file or directory
$ ls /Users/dilum/Downloads/foo/bar
ls: /Users/dilum/Downloads/foo/bar: No such file or directory
$ export JULIA_DEPOT_PATH="/Users/dilum/Downloads/foo/bar"
$ ls ~/.julia
ls: /Users/dilum/.julia: No such file or directory
$ ls /Users/dilum/Downloads/foo/bar
ls: /Users/dilum/Downloads/foo/bar: No such file or directory
$ julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.6.0-DEV.878 (2020-09-09)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Commit 08486888ba (0 days old master)
|__/                   |

julia> 1 + 1
2

julia> exit()
$ ls ~/.julia
ls: /Users/dilum/.julia: No such file or directory
$ ls /Users/dilum/Downloads/foo/bar
logs
$ ls /Users/dilum/Downloads/foo/bar/logs
repl_history.jl
$ cat /Users/dilum/Downloads/foo/bar/logs/repl_history.jl
# time: 2020-09-10 03:29:28 EDT
# mode: julia
	1 + 1
# time: 2020-09-10 03:29:29 EDT
# mode: julia
	exit()

[KristofferC]

Yep, seems so. That's good then.