[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57 (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Wed Jan 16 04:35:25 CET 2008

Bill Janssen wrote:

Sure, but it's clearly where this should be on an OS X system, by default. And I'm sure there's a different "best place" on Windows (for instance, all of our accounts are network roaming accounts, and you don't want to put anything in ~). And there are probably various right places for various flavors of Linux.

Any PEP on this that doesn't take these OS-specific differences into account probably isn't worth reading, IMO.

Your comment doesn't help at all. In fact my proposal uses different "best places" for Windows (%APPDATA%), Mac (/Library/Python) and Unix (/.local). I can't comment on OS2, Ricos and VAX because I've zero experience with the platforms.

The right place for a platform is the place we decide is right. As long as the directory is somewhere inside the home directory of a user and the directory doesn't show up in the user data folder (hence APPDATA on Windows and a dot directory on Unix) I consider any sensible directory as the right one. Do you think APPDATA. ~/Library/Python or ~/.local are not sensible?

Please stop bitching and bring in some useful, constructive criticism and use cases not covered by my PEP. Have you read the PEP at all?

Christian

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