Use known folders for nix data on windows#14973
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Good point this might be useful for msys2/MINGW-packages#22499 |
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It does not belong in libutil.
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This is the usual conventions on windows. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/knownfolderid and https://github.com/adrg/xdg for examples of the mapping of XDG paths to Windows known folders. Additionally, on Windows, this allows us to dispense with a hard-coded default for `nixConfDir`, which is both nice (fewer compile-time configuration options) and necessary, because we don't know what drive the `ProgramData` directory will live on. Tested on wine. Co-Authored-By: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
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This is the usual conventions on windows.
See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/knownfolderid and https://github.com/adrg/xdg for examples of the mapping of XDG paths to Windows known folders.
Tested on wine.
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