[Python-Dev] Fixing #7175: a standard location for Python config files (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Aug 13 20:28:31 CEST 2010

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:57:57 -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Aug 12, 2010, at 09:10 AM, Fred Drake wrote:

>Perhaps user configuration belongs in ~/.local/, or ~/.local/python/ >(with attendant Windows & Mac OS noises); I don't really care where it >lands, because right now we just have a mess. Getting it "right" with >respect to Window's "roaming" notion and how people expect to work >with it is... unlikely. Picking a place is better than not, so we >know where to find things. But that's all it buys us. I've missed most of this discussion while on vacation, but if ~/.local is supposed to mirror /usr/local, then wouldn't a logical place for per-user configuration files be ~/.local/etc/whatever.cfg?

I think this has already been debated, -1 on it.

Antoine.

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