Should bzr aliases possibly be in their own file?

[Gordon Tyler]

On Fri, October 29, 2010 11:07 am, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 20 October 2010 04:52, Michael Gliwinski
> <Michael.Gliwinski at henderson-group.com> wrote:
>> All this sounds awesome, good to see things happening here.
>>
>> While talking about config files, etc. have you considered the XDG base
>> directory specification [1]?  More and more programs are moving to it as
>> it
>> provides some compelling benefits.  Example:
>>
>>  - system and user specific dirs with well defined precedence,
>> overridable via
>> environment variables
>>  - separation of real config data from caches, etc. allows e.g. easier
>> backups
>> or versioning of config files
>>
>> It is simple-enough to implement if you don't want additional
>> dependencies but
>> there is also the PyXDG library for accessing freedesktop.org standards
>> (including base dir spec) [2].
>
> Yes, we have thought of it and
> <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/195397> asks for this.
> There are no particular blockers, it just needs someone to finish it
> off.

How would this map to platforms like Windows and Mac OS X?

Ciao,
Gordon