#pipx & platformdirs

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polar cave
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was removed in pypa/pipx#1297:

changelog:

They were leading to a lot of issues with Windows sandboxing and spaces in shebangs on MacOS.

discussion:

IMHO - if platformdirs isn't providing any value on Windows or Mac, it should probably be removed and pipx should fallback to a consistent behavior across platforms.

The benefit is specifically on linux, adhering to the xdg spec. IMO that's a good reason to keep it. we need to keep the package anyways to be backwards compatible with anyone that used the default location since 1.2

hollow wren
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Yeah that’s the problem I referred to in this sentence

I tried to reproduce the problem that apparently led to this but was unable

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The linked comment shows the outcome of my attempt