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# Etcetera

This is a Rust library that allows you to determine the locations of configuration, data, cache & other files for your application.
Existing Rust libraries generally do not give you a choice in terms of which standards/conventions they follow.
Etcetera, on the other hand, gives you the choice.

MSRV: 1.70.0 (You need to pin `home` dependency to <0.5.11, otherwise it is 1.81.0)

## Conventions

Etcetera supports the following conventions:

- the [XDG base directory](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html)
- Apple's [Standard Directories](https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemOverview/FileSystemOverview.html)
- Window's [Known Folder Locations](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/knownfolderid)
- the "Unix Single-folder Convention" i.e. everything in `~/.myapp`

## Strategies

Etcetera has 2 modes of operation: `BaseStrategy` & `AppStrategy`:

- With `BaseStrategy`, you just get the location of the respective directory. For eg. for `config_dir()`:
  - XDG: `~/.config`
  - Apple: `~/Library/Preferences`
  - Windows: `~\AppData\Roaming`
- With `AppStrategy`, you provide additional information to get the location of your app directory.
  For eg. if you provide the following details: `{ top_level_domain: "org", author: "Acme Corp", app_name: "Frobnicator Plus" }`, you'll get:
  - XDG: `~/.config/frobnicator-plus`
  - Unix: `~/.frobnicator-plus`
  - Apple: `~/Library/Preferences/org.acme-corp.Frobnicator-Plus`
  - Windows: `~\AppData\Roaming\Acme Corp\Frobnicator Plus`

Note: the location of the home (~) is determined by the [`home`](https://docs.rs/home/0.5.4/home/fn.home_dir.html) crate.

### Convenience functions

Etcetera also provides convenience functions for selecting the appropriate strategy on each platform:

- `base_strategy::choose_base_strategy` & `app_strategy::choose_app_strategy`: Uses `Windows` on Windows & `XDG` everywhere else.
  This is used by most CLI tools & some GUI tools on each platform.
- `base_strategy::choose_native_strategy` & `app_strategy::choose_native_strategy`: Uses `Windows` on Windows, `Apple` on macOS/iOS, & `XDG` everywhere else.
  This is used by most GUI applications on each platform.

## 

See the ![documentation](https://docs.rs/etcetera) for examples.
