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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue May 6 15:51:32 CEST 2008

Alec Thomas wrote:

FWIW my vote is for ~/.python. ~/.local comes in a distant second due to non-obviousness and ~/Python is several light years beyond that.

I think if the obviousness (or lack thereof) of the chosen directory name ever really matters to anyone, we did it wrong. After all, unless you're trying to use something other than distutils to get a package ready for installation, how often does it really matter that the site-packages directory for an installed python interpreter actually lives somewhere inside /usr/local?

The main advantage I see to using the "~/.local" approach is that a lot of questions about file layout (e.g. where to put architecture specific code) are automatically (and fairly obviously) answered "Do whatever is done for the system-wide equivalent in /usr/local".

Cheers, Nick.

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