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

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Thu Jan 17 22:14:18 CET 2008

On Jan 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:

I assume ~/.local was first introduced by the freedesktop.org people. On my box it's only used for some desktop related apps like ~/.local/share/Trash or XFC4.

I've only seen ~/.local/ defined there, and only ~/.local/share/ in
that case. Anything beyond that is grass-roots, and still pretty
obscure.

That said, I think extending usage of ~/.local/ is fine for things
that aren't supposed to be edited or directly used by users. ~/.local/ bin/ seems suspect.

-Fred

-- Fred Drake

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