[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008 (original) (raw)

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Fri May 2 19:53:54 CEST 2008

On May 1, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

Interesting. I'm of the opposite opinion. I really don't want Python dictating to me what my home directory should look like (a dot file doesn't count because so many tools conspire to hide it from me). I guess there's always $PYTHONUSERBASE, but I think I will not be alone. ;)

Using ~/.local/ for user-managed content doesn't seem right to me at
all, because it's hidden by default.

If user-local package installs went to / by default (/bin/ for
scripts, ~/lib/python/ or ~/lib/pythonX.Y/ for modules and packages),
with a way to set an alternate "prefix" instead of ~/ using a
distutils configuration setting, I'd be happy enough.

I'd be even happier if there were no default per-user location, but a
required configuration setting (in the existing distutils config
locations) in order to enable per-user installation.

-Fred

-- Fred Drake

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