Please make aws2 respect XDG Base Directory Specification

[lousyd]

aws2 currently defaults to storing configuration and credentials in a directory called "$HOME/.aws". Please modify it to default to "$HOME/.config/aws", per the XDG Base Directory Specification. This isn't just to follow a standard for standard's sake, but also to help keep hidden directories from proliferating in home directories. It would be sensible for aws2 to default to "$HOME/.config/aws" but fallback to "$HOME/.aws" if the former isn't available, so that backwards compatibility can be maintained.

I've set AWS_CONFIG_FILE and AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE, which does change where the config and credentials file are stored. But aws2 cli history still goes to .aws in my home directory.

Please please make aws2 respect XDG!

[z0rc]

Linking previous issues about this topic to signify that this isn't a new issue, but v2 would be prefect opportunity to finally make it happen.
https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/2433
boto/botocore#1839

[kdaily]

Given that this is relevant to AWS CLI v1 and v2, I'm going to close it in favor of #2433.

This change would need to be respected by all AWS SDKs and tools, so I'm going to be moving #2433 to the AWS SDK issue tracking repository, at https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk.

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[Jolg42]

Note: I did find the new issue (still open) at aws/aws-sdk#30