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cap-directories

Capability-based standard directories for config, cache and other data

by Dan Gohman, Jakub Konka and 18 contributors. Co-owned by wasmtime-publish.

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cap-directories

Capability-based standard directories for config, cache and other data

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The cap-directories crate provides utilities for accessing standard directories via the directories crate, but which provide Dirs instead of Paths.

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