On 5 February 2016 at 16:39, AltSheets Dev <altsheets+mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it be a valid feature request to make those two useful options > (pre-install-script/install-script) available platform-independent?
It's something that has been discussed under the "Metadata 2.0" banner. It's certainly a valid request - but addressing the various concerns and issues that come up is complex, and (AFAIK) no-one has really come up with a satisfactory solution yet. [...] >> Have you thought of maybe not relying on the UID being generated at >> "install" time, but rather having a "coinq init" command that the user >> runs *once* to set up his/her UID? The other commands could then >> check for that UID wherever you choose to store it, and if they don't >> find it [...] automatically run init if they find no UID. > > Yes. I know, that is the other way to go. > > But then I need to understand where I am allowed to write persistent files > - outside the place where the other .py files are installed anyways. > And as that UUID.py has to be created only once in the lifetime of > my tool on their computers, I had thought the /site-packages/... folder > is the best place for it. But perhaps it is really not. > > Do you know a Python package that abstracts from the platform ... with which > > I can write to (would those be the right places?) > > (username/AppData/Roaming/myfolder) on Windows, and > (~/.myfolder) on Linux - and is it > (~/Library/myfolder) on Mac? The "appdirs" project (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/appdirs) is one I've seen used/recommended a lot. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
