pub uses %APPDATA% and not %LOCALAPPDATA%

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by [email protected]

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Check pub's cache dir on Windows OR
2. Check pub global's exes dir on Windows

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Stuff is stored in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming...

i. e.

%APPDATA%...

Because pub does not store configuration data, but cached data and scripts, it seems strange that pub stores stuff in the roaming profile, as Dart many not be installed on other computers the user accesses. It seems more adequate to store the cache and pub global exes in the %LOCALAPPDATA% folder.

Note that if config data was stored instead, it would be more justifiable to use %APPDATA%.

What version of the product are you using?

1.8.5

On what operating system?

Windows

[dgrove]

Added Area-Pub, Triaged labels.

[DartBot]

This issue has been moved to dart-lang/pub#1273.

[i-dee]

This issue has been moved to dart-lang/pub#1273.