xdg is deprecated, renamed to xdg-base-dirs

[jonathan-berezin]

The PyPI project description for xdg says the following:

"""xdg has been renamed to xdg-base-dirs due to an import collision with PyXDG. Therefore the xdg package is deprecated. Install xdg-base-dirs instead.
"""

The PyPI project description for xdg-base-dirs makes a corresponding warning.

References:
https://pypi.org/project/xdg/
https://pypi.org/project/xdg-base-dirs/

[davep]

xdg-base-dirs is Python>=3.10; Frogmouth supports Python 3.8 and above. There are no substantial changes in xdg-base-dirs vs xdg and pinning to xdg is recommended by the maintainer themselves.

If/when Frogmouth becomes Python>=3.10 it will likely swap to xdg-base-dirs.

[jonathan-berezin]

Awesome! The more you know. I was browsing/admiring the codebase here, hadn't encountered xdg before, looked it up, and thought it was the right thing to do to raise a flag! I'm glad there's no issue.

[davep]

No worries: much better to raise the issue and be sure, so very much appreciated.

[gl-yziquel]

@jonathan-berezin I made a PR for that change you requested: #113.

I need that to get it packaged as a debian package in my local workflow (and get xdg-base-dirs packaged too).

@davep It does indeed requires python >= 3.10. What is wrong with not being 3.8 compatible ? If 3.8 is a must, then I guess it should not be too much of a problem to use pyxdg and not xdg-base-dirs. At least until frogmouth gets 3.10 compatible.

[davep]

@gl-yziquel Back when this issue was raised Python 3.8 wasn't yet EOL, and the brief for Frogmouth was to stay compatible with all supported Python versions (like Textual).

I can't speak to if this is still a requirement as I'm no longer a maintainer of this application.

[gl-yziquel]

@davep who is the maintainer of this application ?

[davep]

Sorry, I don't know; you'd probably need to direct that question at the company who own the organisation.

[gl-yziquel]

@davep Hmmmhh.... smell like politics. OK. Thank you.

[davep]

I'm afraid your sense of smell is off. I literally don't know the answer so I can't give you something I'm not in possession of. I have however pointed you to where you can get the answer.

[gl-yziquel]

@davep thanks.