I'm withdrawing my opposition in the light of the sheer number of words that have already been written with this.
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum schrieb: > > > I like this, except one issue: I really don't like the .local > > directory. I don't see any compelling reason why this needs to be > > ~/.local/lib/ -- IMO it should just be ~/lib/. There's no need to hide > > it from view, especially since the user is expected to manage this > > explicitly. > > The directory name has been commented on by glyph in great length > (again). Thanks glyph! I'm all on his side. The base directory for > Python related files should be a dot directory in the root directory of > the users home dir. I slightly prefer ~/.local/ over other suggestions > but I'm also open to ~/.python.d/ > > Should I wait with the commit until we have agreed on a directory name > or do you want me to commit the code now? > > > > I might look at this later; but it seems to me to be a pure > > optimization and thus not required to be in before the first beta. > > Correct, it's an optimization to enhance the memory utilization. > > Christian > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
