> Some individuals, particularly those running Linux, follow a standard called XDG Base Directory Specification. While Murex does not adhere to this standard, instead conforming to the de facto standard defined by the past precedents of previous shells, in order to offer flexibility for those who do prefer the XDG specification Murex does support overriding its own default paths via special environmental variables.
no no no you're missing the point: on POSIX systems, go with XDG by default. cmon guys it's 2023 not 2003
Murex doesn't just target POSIX systems and XDG added a lot of edge case problems I wasn't prepared to deal with at the time. Particularly so back when the shell was first created. So I went with the de facto shell standard instead.
You can override that behaviour if you want to use XDG but making it the default could break backwards compatibility, result in confusing documentation for non-POSIX users and introduce a lot of additional development and testing just to fix something that already works fine.
Like with any open source project, if someone else is willing to commit some time into solving these concerns then I'll gladly merge it. But I need to be pragmatic with how I prioritise my development time.
no no no you're missing the point: on POSIX systems, go with XDG by default. cmon guys it's 2023 not 2003