[Python-Dev] proto-pep: plugin proposal (for unittest) (original) (raw)

Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Sun Aug 1 17:22:55 CEST 2010


Speaking of which... Your documentation says it's named ~/unittest.cfg, could you make this a file in the user base (that is, the prefix where 'setup.py install --user' will install files)?

Putting .pydistutils.cfg .pypirc .unittest2.cfg .idlerc and possibly other in the user home directory (or %APPDATA% on win32 and what-have-you on Mac) is unnecessary clutter. However, $PYTHONUSERBASE is not the right directory for configuration files, as pointed in http://bugs.python.org/issue7175

It would be nice to agree on a ~/.python (resp. %APPADATA%/Python) or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python directory and put config files there.

Regards



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