A completely fair point ... and one we debated at length.
Ultimately we decided that the convenience for users and documentation of a single location outweighed the benefits of following the basedir spec, particularly when deployed across operating systems. We looked at other tools, including terraform [1], in reaching a final decision. FWIW, we do let you customize the location of the "install dir" [2].
Hopefully the benefits of Steampipe outweigh the "peeve" factor in this case <grin>
Sadly I read that as "Other tools do their own thing so we decided to do our own thing too" :(
Though admittedly, "convenience for users" is a rather tricky thing to define, as you really need to define "which users". I imagine ~/.projectname is easier getting started out, but the long term management is why we (try) to have standard locations for things.
Agreed. Unfortunately requirements for long term management / large scale deployment aren't a priority until a tool is widely adopted, which is best achieved by keeping it simple. An interesting trade off...
Though admittedly, "convenience for users" is a rather tricky thing to define, as you really need to define "which users". I imagine ~/.projectname is easier getting started out, but the long term management is why we (try) to have standard locations for things.