[Python-Dev] PEP: per user site-packages directory (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Mon Jan 14 22:44:56 CET 2008

On 2008-01-14 22:23, Christian Heimes wrote:

The PEP is now available at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/. The reference implementation is in svn, too: svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/pep370

Thanks for the effort, Christian. Much appreciated.

Regarding the recent ~/bin vs. ~/.local/bin discussion:

I usually maintain my ~/bin directories by hand and wouldn't want any application to install things in there automatically (and so far I haven't been using any application that does), so I'd be in favor of the ~/.local/bin dir.

Note that users typically don't know which scripts are made available by a Python application and it's not always clear what functionality they provide, whether they can be trusted, include bugs, need to be run with extra care, etc, so IMHO making it a little harder to run them by accident is well warranted.

Thanks again,

Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com

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