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

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Mon Aug 2 18:15:44 CEST 2010

On 2 Aug, 2010, at 16:24, R. David Murray wrote:

(Ronald, the text version of your message was very difficult to sort through and read, because all of the quoting information was lost. Just thought you'd want to know.)

I'll stop using the mobile-me webmail client for lists, it seems to mess things up.

What I hear Glyph saying is that we should support looking in both locations for configuration info on OSX, and I don't see a downside to that. Most unix applications look in multiple places for configuration info.

A lot of tools seem to look both in a system location and a per user location (such as /etc/profile and ~/.profile).

OSX ads a 3th level to that, although I have never used that myself (technically there are 4 levels, but that isn't important unless you are Apple).

Michael seems to be arguing for not using the standard OSX locations because the Finder can't edit them anyway. Is that true?

The Finder can open OSX locations just fine, but you cannot see dot-files (or -directories) in the Finder.

I won't argue this anymore, at least not this week. I'll work around the issue in my private tree if that's what's needed.

Ronald

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