Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello > > For http://bugs.python.org/issue6555, I was wondering if anyone recall > why we have two different names (pydistutils.cfg vs distutils.cfg) > > As Zookoo pointed (and Google, if I search for "distutils.cfg > pydistutils.cfg" :) ) it brings a lot of confusion, and I would like > to deprecate pydistutils.cfg
.pydistutils.cfg is placed in the home dir of the user. In order to establish some connection with Python, the "py" prefix was added. All other location already have an implicit relationship with Python, so the prefix is not needed. It would be nice to have a user config *directory* for all Python config things, e.g. ~/.python/. Then it'd be natural to drop the ".py" prefix. Without the prefix, people would have a hard time connecting a .distutils.cfg in their home dir with Python. > and have ".distutils.cfg" and "distutils.cfg" for the user-level file > (unless someone finds a good reason it has to be different) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 03 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
