From 6c29c63e93f91a5b939511521b42da15d13b131f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Kowalik <steven@wedontsleep.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:07:46 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Switch from appdirs to platformdirs

appdirs has been officially deprecated upstream, the replacement module
with more features is platformdirs.
---
 CHANGES                       | 2 +-
 docs/advanced/performance.rst | 4 ++--
 pint/facets/plain/registry.py | 5 ++---
 requirements.txt              | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 53e5a5fc5..5385c4775 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Pint Changelog
 0.25 (unreleased)
 -----------------
 
-- Nothing added yet.
+- Switch from appdirs to platformdirs.
 
 
 0.24.1 (2024-06-24)
diff --git a/docs/advanced/performance.rst b/docs/advanced/performance.rst
index d7b8a0cd5..998cac681 100644
--- a/docs/advanced/performance.rst
+++ b/docs/advanced/performance.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ If you want to use the default cache folder provided by the OS, use **:auto:**
     >>> import pint
     >>> ureg = pint.UnitRegistry(cache_folder=":auto:")  # doctest: +SKIP
 
-Pint use an included version of appdirs_ to obtain the correct folder,
+Pint use an external dependency of platformdirs_ to obtain the correct folder,
 for example in macOS is `/Users/<username>/Library/Caches/pint`
 
 In any case, you can check the location of the cache folder.
@@ -146,5 +146,5 @@ In any case, you can check the location of the cache folder.
 
 
 .. _`brentq method`: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.optimize.brentq.html
-.. _appdirs: https://pypi.org/project/appdirs/
+.. _platformdirs: https://pypi.org/project/platformdirs
 .. _flexcache: https://github.com/hgrecco/flexcache/
diff --git a/pint/facets/plain/registry.py b/pint/facets/plain/registry.py
index 09fd220ee..8ecb19fa7 100644
--- a/pint/facets/plain/registry.py
+++ b/pint/facets/plain/registry.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 
     # from ..._typing import Quantity, Unit
 
-import appdirs
+import platformdirs
 
 from ... import pint_eval
 from ..._typing import (
@@ -233,8 +233,7 @@ def __init__(
         self._init_dynamic_classes()
 
         if cache_folder == ":auto:":
-            cache_folder = appdirs.user_cache_dir(appname="pint", appauthor=False)
-            cache_folder = pathlib.Path(cache_folder)
+            cache_folder = platformdirs.user_cache_path(appname="pint", appauthor=False)
 
         from ... import delegates  # TODO: change thiss
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0bc99005a..5cd99e53b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-appdirs>=1.4.4
+platformdirs>=2.1.0
 typing_extensions
 flexcache>=0.3
 flexparser>=0.3