Environment variable for application storage under OSX ?

Anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 17 00:33:42 PDT 2015


On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 07:14:24 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 21:12:05 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>> I have the following code, working under Win and Linux:
>>
>> ---
>> import std.process: environment;
>>
>> immutable string p;
>>
>> static this() {
>>     version(Win32) p = environment.get("APPDATA");
>>     version(linux) p = "/home/" ~ environment.get("USER");
>>     version(OSX) p = "?";
>> }
>> ---
>>
>> what would be the OSX equivalent (to get the path where the 
>> applications data are commonmly stored)?
>
> Hello. You may take a look at this library 
> https://github.com/MyLittleRobo/standardpaths
> OSX version uses Carbon though. You may want to use Cocoa API 
> (which is newer), but it's Objective-C.
> Also you may consider standard path for data storage without 
> using any api or spec. It's usually $HOME/Library/Application 
> Support/ on OSX.

So for a software named 'SuperDownloader2015'  it would be

$HOME/Library/Application Support/SuperDownloader2015

right ?

so it's not user-specific and it's writable for the current user ?
sorry but it looks a bit strange, anyone can confirm ?




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