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

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Fri May 2 13:01:05 CEST 2008

On Friday 02 May 2008, Nick Coghlan wrote:

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.

But you can't be serious about using such a generic word as "local" as the name??? At least include the letters "p" and "y" somewhere.

Phil

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