[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB) (original) (raw)

glyph at divmod.com glyph at divmod.com
Thu Nov 30 06:06:18 CET 2006

On 04:11 am, fdrake at acm.org wrote:

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:20, glyph at divmod.com wrote: > GNOME et. al. aren't promoting the concept too hard. It's just the first > convention I came across. (Pardon the lack of references here, but it's > very hard to google for "~/.local" - I just know that I was looking for a > convention when I wrote combinator, and this is the one I found.)

~/.local/ is described in the "XDG Base Directory Specification": http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

Thanks for digging that up! Not a whole lot of meat there, but at least it gives me some env vars to set / check...

> On the "easyinstall" naming front, how about "layegg"?

Actually, why not just "egg"?

That works for me. I assumed there was some other reason the obvious answer hadn't been chosen :). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20061130/5ecc1583/attachment.htm

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list