[Haskell-cafe] Call-for-help: Add XDGBDS support to `directory` package

Hello *, I'd like to invite everyone with knowledge of the XDG Base Directory Specification[1] to contribute to https://github.com/haskell/directory/issues/6

From what I gathered, it appears to me that adhering to the XDGBD Spec (on Linux at least) is desirable and "strongly encouraged" by Linux distributions[2], so I think this ought to be implemented sooner rather than later (maybe even in time to be part of GHC 7.10.1)

This issue was originally filed against GHC, since it affects the location of the `~/.ghc` folder (and fwiw this would also affect cabal's `~/.cabal` folder location). Thanks, hvr [1]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/XDGBaseDirectorySpecification