Follow XDG Base Directories Specification

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Feature Request

This is a request for poetry to respect the spec fully.
This is not a duplicate of #1659 because that issue is incorrectly titled and only addresses $XDG_DATA_HOME.
It is also not a duplicate of #342 because discussion of the spec never went anywhere and I think it's better to have a specific issue for it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
https://web.archive.org/web/20180827160401/plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp

[rpdelaney]

Can this be closed? See docs: https://python-poetry.org/docs/configuration/

Took a while to find out when this happened, but it seems like it got fixed here: #3706

Thanks.

[luni3359]

Something is definitely not right, because I've only started using Poetry about a week ago and .poetry was created my on my home directory. It's still not fully respecting the specification.

Something is definitely not right, because I've only started using Poetry about a week ago and .poetry was created my on my home directory. It's still not fully respecting the specification.

I can't replicate that.

You're installing with the one liner in the README right?

Only way I can think of right now is that somehow your POETRY_HOME is set to ~/.poetry?

[rpdelaney]

I would also verify the poetry --version.

[luni3359]

I've reinstalled poetry using the one-liner from the README file and it's indeed working as intended. I had followed the instructions over at the official site (https://python-poetry.org/docs/) but I didn't know that they would end up working differently.

I guess that's a documentation issue then. Unless there's some reason to keeping the old script on the website.

[scratchmex]

I have the same error following https://python-poetry.org/docs/

❯ curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python -
Retrieving Poetry metadata

This installer is deprecated. Poetry versions installed using this script will not be able to use 'self update' command to upgrade to 1.2.0a1 or later. It is recommended to use https://install.python-poetry.org instead. Instructions are available at https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation
# Welcome to Poetry!

This will download and install the latest version of Poetry,
a dependency and package manager for Python.

It will add the `poetry` command to Poetry's bin directory, located at:

$HOME/.poetry/bin

This path will then be added to your `PATH` environment variable by
modifying the profile files located at:

$HOME/.profile
$HOME/.zshrc

You can uninstall at any time by executing this script with the --uninstall option,
and these changes will be reverted.

Installing version: 1.1.15
  - Downloading poetry-1.1.15-linux.tar.gz (97.94MB)

and the error is because This installer is deprecated. Poetry versions installed using this script will not be able to use 'self update' command to upgrade to 1.2.0a1 or later. It is recommended to use https://install.python-poetry.org instead. Instructions are available at https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation

If you go to the webpage it actually says The get-poetry.py script described here will be replaced in Poetry 1.2 by install.python-poetry.org. From Poetry 1.1.7 onwards, you can already use this script as described [here](https://python-poetry.org/docs/master/#installation).

TL;DR: use curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

I think this is a serious documentation error

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