[Python-Dev] Inconsistent case in directory names for installed Python on Windows (original) (raw)
anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Wed May 18 14:01:17 CEST 2011
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Greetings,
While studying virtualenv code I've noticed that in Python directory
tree include, libs and tcl are lowercased while other dirs are
capitalized. It doesn't seem important (especially for developers
here), but it still can leave an unpleasant image for people new to
Python (and programming in general).
├[Python27] │ ├─DLLs │ ├─Doc │ ├─include │ ├─Lib │ ├─libs │ ├─Scripts │ ├─tcl │ └─Tools
How about making a consistent lowercased or uppercased scheme? Windows filesystems are case-insensitive, so the change shouldn't affect anybody. Another candidate for normalization is Tools/Scripts dir, which I'd lowercase FWIW:
└─Tools ├─i18n ├─pynche ├─Scripts ├─versioncheck └─webchecker
Lowercased dirs on a top level seem to contains files that are relevant to C developers only. However, I can not say for sure. It seems that there could be a better place for them like top level directory named Dev or C-API.
anatoly t.
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