Merge pull request #1636 from ErikDanielsson/changes-cache-dir

Change base cache dir

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 - Add `--fail-warned` flag to pipeline linting workflow ([#1593](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1593))
 - Updated the package requirements to prevent defunct installations of nf-core ([#1620](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1620))
 - Fix and improve broken test for Singularity container download ([#1622](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1622))
+- Use [`$XDG_CACHE_HOME`](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html) or `~/.cache` instead of `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` or `~/config/` as base directory for API cache
 
 ### Modules
 

nf_core/utils.py

@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
     ]
 )
 
-NFCORE_CONFIG_DIR = os.path.join(
-    os.environ.get("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"), ".config")),
+NFCORE_CACHE_DIR = os.path.join(
+    os.environ.get("XDG_CACHE_HOME", os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"), ".cache")),
     "nf-core",
 )
 
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ def setup_requests_cachedir():
     Also returns the config dict so that we can use the same setup with a Session.
     """
     pyversion = ".".join(str(v) for v in sys.version_info[0:3])
-    cachedir = os.path.join(NFCORE_CONFIG_DIR, f"cache_{pyversion}")
+    cachedir = os.path.join(NFCORE_CACHE_DIR, f"cache_{pyversion}")
 
     config = {
         "cache_name": os.path.join(cachedir, "github_info"),