Best way to make dev do that is to make it easy for them.
E.G: I used to "spray my files in the home dir" for my apps, until I discovered "appdirs" (https://pypi.org/project/appdirs/1.4.0/). Once I had an easy way to always has a clean and correct path for my app config/data/tmp file, I just used it.
E.G: I used to "spray my files in the home dir" for my apps, until I discovered "appdirs" (https://pypi.org/project/appdirs/1.4.0/). Once I had an easy way to always has a clean and correct path for my app config/data/tmp file, I just used it.