xdg-ninja mit Homebrew, apk, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• xdg-ninja

Projektgeschichte

The project began in May 2022 with an initial shell implementation and an early import of supported-program data from the Arch Wiki XDG Base Directory page. The README still describes the configuration corpus as coming from the Arch Wiki, antidot, and user contributions.

The tool deliberately keeps the main checker simple: a POSIX-like shell script, jq, and find are enough to run the tests. Later work added a Haskell helper, xdgnj, for generating and editing the JSON program configurations, while the README emphasizes that the shell script remains the core checker.

Adoptionsgeschichte

xdg-ninja grew with dotfiles culture and the recurring frustration that many command-line programs still create legacy ~/.name files even after the freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification defined preferred locations for config, data, state, cache, and runtime files.

The README documents Nix and Homebrew usage, but also warns that because upstream does not cut regular releases, Homebrew users should install and upgrade from HEAD. That is an unusually transparent adoption note and explains why package-manager versions may lag behind the living configuration database.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run xdg-ninja in their home environment. The script checks known paths, prints warnings for unwanted files or directories, and renders Markdown help explaining whether the item is movable and what setting or migration step can relocate it.

Contributors add JSON files under programs/. Each file names a program and the $HOME paths it creates, plus Markdown help for movable or unsupported cases. The XN_PROGRAMS_DIR environment variable can point the checker at an alternate configuration directory.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

xdg-ninja is important to package nerds because it turns the messy social problem of XDG compliance into a testable, crowd-maintained catalog. It is half lint tool, half living index of which CLI programs respect modern Unix home-directory conventions.

It also exposes a subtle packaging issue: data freshness matters more than binary freshness. A stale packaged xdg-ninja can miss newly documented offenders even if the shell code itself still works.

Zeitleiste

• 2021-05-08: XDG Base Directory Specification 0.8 publication date.
• 2022-05-12: xdg-ninja initial commit and first implementation.
• 2022-05-12: Early supported-program data imported from the Arch Wiki article.
• 2022-06-06: v0.2.0.0 tag.
• 2024-02-03: v0.2.0.2 tag for the xdgnj helper release line.

Related projects

• XDG Base Directory Specification: defines the directory conventions xdg-ninja checks against.
• Arch Wiki XDG Base Directory page: one of the configuration-data sources named by upstream.
• antidot: another source of XDG migration knowledge credited by the README.
• xdgnj: upstream helper for creating and previewing xdg-ninja program configuration files.

Quellen

• Git history and tags: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja
• README, b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja#readme
• XDG Base Directory Specification: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
• xdg-ninja shell script: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja/blob/main/xdg-ninja.sh