[Python-Dev] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri May 2 12:43:19 CEST 2008

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

-On [20080502 10:50], Steve Holden (steve at holdenweb.com) wrote:

Groan. Then everyone else realizes what a "great idea" this is, and we see ~/Perl/, ~/Ruby/, ~/C# (that'll screw the Microsoft users, a directory with a comment market in its name), ~/Lisp/ and the rest? I don't think people would thank us for that in the long term. I'm +1 on just using HOME/.local,butotherwiseHOME/.local, but otherwise HOME/.local,butotherwiseHOME/.python makes sense too. $HOME/.python.d doesn't do it for me, too clunky (and hardly used if I look at my .files in $HOME). But I agree with Steve that it should be a hidden directory.

This sums up my opinion pretty well. Hidden by default, but easy to expose (e.g. via a local -> .local symlink) for the more experienced users that want it more easily accessible.

Cheers, Nick.

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