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Revert platformdirs on MacOS and Windows #1297
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By the way, should we have |
IMHO - if platformdirs isn't providing any value on Windows or Mac, it should probably be removed and pipx should fallback to a consistent behavior across platforms. |
The benefit is specifically on linux, adhering to the xdg spec. IMO that's a good reason to keep it. we need to keep the package anyways to be backwards compatible with anyone that used the default location since 1.2
I don't think I'm fond of automatically removing it, but maybe we can print a hint that it can safely be deleted by the user? |
As especially downstream packagers are really pleased if it is being followed (see e.g. Debian).
Let's do this at info level. |
…' into revert_platformdirs
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(if the patch affects the end users)Summary of changes
On MacOS and Windows, we now use the old paths again, while using the post 1.2.0 paths as fallback.
On Linux - nothing changed.
Resolves #1257
Test plan
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Existing test suite