Guido van Rossum wrote:
I stand corrected on a few points. You've convinced me that ~/lib/ is
wrong. But I still don't like ~/.local/; not in the last place because
it's not any more local than any other dot files or directories. The
"symmetry" with /usr/local/ is pretty weak, and certainly won't help
beginning users.
So it's the *name* you don't like rather than the invisibility?
As a compromise, I'm okay with ~/Python/. I would like to be able to
say that the user explicitly has to set an environment variable in
order to benefit from this feature, just like with $PYTHONPATH and
$PYTHONSTARTUP. But that might defeat the point of making this easy to
use for noobs.
Groan. Then everyone else realizes what a "great idea" this is, and we
see ~/Perl/, ~/Ruby/, ~/C# (that'll screw the Microsoft users, a
directory with a comment market in its name), ~/Lisp/ and the rest? I
don't think people would thank us for that in the long term.
I'm about +10 on invisibility, for the simple reason that "hiding the
mechanism" is the right thing to do for naive users, who are the most
likely to screw things up if given the chance and the most likely to be
unaware of dot-name directories. If you don't like ~/.local/ then please
consider ~/.private/ or ~/.personal/ or something else, but don't
gratuitously add a visible subdirectory.
On OS X I think we should put this somewhere under ~/Library/. Just
put it in a different place than where the Python framework puts its
stuff.
Nothing to say about OS X.
One day Windows might start to respect the "hidden dot" convention, but
perhaps in the interim we could create a (Windows-hidden) ~/.private/?
Assuming we could work out where to put it ;-)
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[much good sense]
regards
Steve
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