Install To Platform-Standard Locations | Reduce Home Directory Clutter

[taep96]

Motivations

Files are currently placed directly in $HOME, which creates clutter. Using standard platform directories would improve system integration.

• Would you like to implement this feature? — Not sure.

Solution

1. Use directories crate with the following fallback order:

   1. $XDG_DATA_HOME/espup
   2. $HOME/.local/share/espup
   3. $HOME/.espup

2. Add flag to optionally symlink export-esp.sh from $HOME to $XDG_DATA_HOME/espup/export-esp.sh

3. Create an extension-less version of the script with a shebang and export to $PATH - the $HOME symlink could point to this instead

Alternatives

• Add an environment variable to customize the location — $ESP_HOME

Additional context

The directories crate provides cross-platform support for standard directory locations.

[SergioGasquez]

Files are currently placed directly in $HOME??

What files do you mean, we only generate the export file in $HOME, and this can be modified with the -f, --export-file argument.

The Xtensa Rust toolchain, uses the RUSTUP_HOME environment variable, as rusutp does, to set where the toolchain is installed

[taep96]

The .espup directory

[SergioGasquez]

The .espup is just a symlink, see #380. If we have different options of where it could leave, we will have to modify how esp-idf-sys behaves.

[taep96]

Can the same cascade be implemented there?

[SergioGasquez]

Yes, we could apply the same priority. That being said, implementing this won't be a priority for us, we would accept any contribution implementing this.