[fpc-devel] GetAppConfigDir under Unices

[Michalis Kamburelis]

Hi

I had some time today and I decided to write a simple patch that fixes
GetAppConfigDir, adhering to basedir-spec.

The arguments after adhering to basedir-spec are:
- The idea to place things within .config/ seems sensible.
- On my system (Debian testing) I see two things that adhere to it
(xfce4 and graveman), so the spec is not completely unknown.

So my patch follows Danny's advice and adheres to basedir-spec.

So GetAppConfigDir(false) and GetAppConfigFile(false, ...) behavior 
changes to use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config/. The patch also fixes 
GetAppConfigFile(false) behavior (ConfigExtension was not appended in 
this case).

I'm attaching the patch to rtl/unix/sysutils.pp (done versus trunk, but 
I think it should be merged with 2.0.1 branch too) as file 
sysutils.patch, and I'm attaching a trivial test program 
test_app_config_dir.pas to easily test GetAppConfigXxx
routines.

Michalis
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