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by SquibblesRedux 300 days ago
Has the XDG Base Directory Specification been adopted by an official standards committee? In my previous life, calling something a standard carried a great deal of weight. For example, contracts could mandate compliance with standards.

Having built apps and CLI tools for macOS, the author's post certainly makes sense to me. Calling something a standard without backing from a standards committee seems odd, however.