[Python-Dev] PEP 370, open questions (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Thu Jan 17 10:41:35 CET 2008

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

The Mac directories look fine to me.

Is it worthwhile to note in the PEP that the directories for the Mac are already used in Python 2.5?

Good point!

* Mac: Should framework and non-framework builds of Python use the same directories? Yes, because that makes supporting users easier and keeps things nice and simple (no need to ask which kind of Python they installed to determine where their user directory is). Distutils should already link extensions in a way that allows you to have a python2.6 unix-build and framework-build that share the same site-packages directory.

Have you read glyph's posting? He brought up some good points why Python on Mac should use ~/.local.

Framework builds have an additional import directory in ~/Library/Python

Christian

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