Support "Portable Mode"

[vpfruitly]

Support "Portable Mode"

[cld9x]

Good idea

[jrebey]

This can already be done through the use of go-appdata.

Simply set XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable on Linux or APPDATA on Windows to whatever path you want when running the binary.

On Linux:
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/some/path xbvr

On Windows:
set APPDATA=c:\some\path && xbvr

Doing this will create an xbvr path if it doesn't exist, or use an existing one.

Let me know if it works on Windows!

[vpfruitly]

Yep, that absolutely works, but it's a bit much maybe to ask of end users. Something like a setting to pass in a path or check the current folder would be much simpler.

But I think it boils down to getting feedback on how wanted this feature is. Maybe it's just me, and I can certainly use this method, in which case it's not worth the development, testing, and added complexity.

[jrebey]

We've been steering folks towards Docker more and more. With docker, you can use volumes and store them wherever you want. I think using docker would be preferred over these types of features.

I'm not sure I see a major difference between xbvr --appdata=/path/to/data and the method I posted in regards to complexity for users aside from the differences in methods between platforms. But that's mostly a documentation issue.