[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Jan 15 22:31:42 CET 2008


Oleg Broytmann writes:

~/.python

To me, this strongly suggests user configuration files, not a place where an app can store user-specific packages.

True, there are apps that store their stuff in such places, like most GNOME apps. But they have no user-servicable parts (including config files) anyway.

I think both for UI reasons (given above) and for API reasons (given by others) there should be a separate ~/SOMETHING/{bin,etc,lib,share} hierarchy for user-specific packaged contents. I like ~/.local a little better than ~/local, but both work for me.



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