[rblatz]

The spec from Apple could be clearer, you have to read the tea leaves and both sides have enough ammo to argue for their interpretation. But as someone who doesn’t care either way where these are stored I think that makes me a bit more objective than people who strongly have an opinion that they are looking to justify.

I think the Application support people have a stronger argument. Nowhere does it say store it in ~/.config for CLI tools. Also it seems weird to store user preferences in two different locations based on if it’s a CLI app or a GUI app. What if you have both interfaces?

I’m not saying that Application Support is the better solution, and if people feel that there should be a distinction between CLI apps and GUI apps they should push for Apple to update their standards. Repeatedly harassing an open source maintainer to relitigate an issue they’ve already decided on is counter productive and a waste of the maintainer’s time. I would be frustrated if I was him as well.