[Python-3000] ~/.local [was: Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008] (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Fri May 2 22:26:12 CEST 2008

What it means (to me in the context of Unix-y system organization) is "this is where I put stuff that I would be happy to have as part of the system I was given (by some authority: my boss, Microsoft, or Brett Cannon's stdlib PEP), but for some reason I'm not comfortable/ permitted to install it as system software."

Yeah, I was just pointing out that for me, "~" ports across a number of different machines, and putting stuff specific to any particular machine in there needs more thought. For UpLib, I generate machine UUIDs from characteristics of the machine, using uuidgen, and store compiled code and other machine specific things in a subdirectory with that UUID. Otherwise, we end up trying to execute PPC compiled shared libraries on a SPARC platform, or Python 2.5 extensions with Python 2.3.

Bill

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