Switch to user_config_dir

[Serial-ATA]

I think these files are better suited for the config dir. I'm always going there looking for the files and getting thrown off when I can't find them 😅.

[kasper9n]

It looks like appdirs.user_config_dir points to ~/Library/Preferences on macOS, which goes against OS guidelines:

Preferences

Contains the user’s preferences. You should never create files in this directory yourself. To get or set preference values, you should always use the NSUserDefaults class or an equivalent system-provided interface.

Opened ActiveState/appdirs#185 about that

[Serial-ATA]

appdirs doesn't really seem to be maintained. Should another library be used instead?

[kasper9n]

Could do that if there's a good alternative out there

[Serial-ATA]

Yeah, I looked around and couldn't find anything 🤷. I'll make a PR and hope it gets noticed.

[Serial-ATA]

I doubt the PR will get any attention, so I just made a special case for macOS.

[kasper9n]

It actually looks like using platformdirs is a good alternative. They have the same problem, but it's being maintained - opened tox-dev/platformdirs#98

I also think the roaming folder should probably be used on Windows

[Serial-ATA]

I wonder if these projects would even be willing to make such a change, given how old they are.

[kasper9n]

We'd have to see what they say in the issue I suppose

In the meantime it would be fine to keep the special macOS handling

[Serial-ATA]

I'm not familiar with macOS, the path would be ~/Library/Application Support/Kasper Henningsen.vidl right? I was looking here, but I'm not sure.

[kasper9n]

Reverse domain name notation is used sometimes (I use space.kasper.<appname> for desktop apps), so it would be space.kasper.vidl in that case. For vidl, I'm not sure I'd want to use that if it's just on one platform though

[Serial-ATA]

So just ~/Library/Application Support/vidl?

[kasper9n]

yeah, and that's also what's used currently

[Serial-ATA]

Alright, should be good now.