Use $HOME/.dart instead of $HOME/.dartServer

[kevmoo]

The dart CLI is using $HOME/.dart for its analytics data.

It'd be great if the analysis server used this, too – so there are fewer places we litter a users home directory.

Not a big priority – but something to consider.

CC @jwren

[kevmoo]

Also CC @mit-mit RE keeping our SDK footprint on a users machine as clean/sane as possible

[jwren]

• some analyzer folks that have some context here

[mit-mit]

I don't think $HOME/.dart should be used for content that is "temporary"; I thought that was for settings and similar.

For temporary files, did we consider using a system-level temp folder?

[mraleph]

I think we should pack everything into a single folder - and that folder should follow established conventions.

On Linux this probably means following XDG (#41560)

On Mac this probably means ~/Library/Caches/...

[kevmoo]

Sorry – didn't mean temporary. I meant settings and such. Since .dartServer IS for caches and not settings, I think Slava's idea is solid here.

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[scheglov]

To do this right we would need to implement a package to support XDG directories on all platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows).
Then we could use this package in the analysis server.

[jonasfj]

A utility to find an application specific config file was added to cli_util, see: applicationConfigHome