Determine how and where to store script related data (currently ~/.elodie) about elodie HOT 7 CLOSED

Fixing a 1,200 day old bug like no one's business.

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.elodie is a bad spot to look. Ultimately I figured it needs to store information however OS X apps do it. I'm not familiar with any of that but I assume there's something similar to Core Data that exists for the desktop. Even if it's a location where an app can store things.

If you want that to be in Google Drive then I think what makes sense is to let the user set that up via symlink.

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We could use one of the database options. I went with Disk DB because it was basic, all it does is store a .json file and then you have some mongo like queries you can make. That doesn't help the portability that @patricksan is looking for though.

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@justinwoodcock @patricksan since we're using Electron I guess we should store this in a platform agnostic way. Originally I was thinking to use OS X standards but something more along the lines of what Atom uses seems reasonable.

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@patricksan I suppose a simple way would be to use a symlink from .elodie to your Google Drive. At least that should work in the meantime.

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The appdirs module might be useful for Python... it would give you a cross platform way to get something equivalent to Electron's app.getPath('userData').

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@noonat I think that's the right solution. A quick search didn't reveal a similar library for nodejs but this stack overflow comment might be sufficient.

I'll close gh-68 as a duplicate of this and I don't have any objections to using SQLite in the platform's application directory as the right solution.

The application name should be Elodie with a capital E.

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