Feature #15840: configuration path search

• Status: Open
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[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Related to #15828, a standard method to search configuration files would be nice.

We (naruse and nobu) talked about it and agreed on Etc.config_file

To load a config file as Ruby script:

Etc.config_file(basename) {|path| load(path) rescue nil}

or just search the file:

file = Etc.config_file

basename will be defaulted to the base name of the program name,$0.

A flag to write new file:

Etc.config_file(create: true) {|f| FileUtils.mdir_p(File.basename(f)); File.write(f, content)}

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Links:
XDG Base Directory Specification
Haiku Filesystem layout

[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

I can't say much about the API/name but the functionality looks useful/good in my opinion.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

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