On May 1, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
Interesting. I'm of the opposite opinion. I really don't want Python dictating to me what my home directory should look like (a dot file doesn't count because so many tools conspire to hide it from me). I guess there's always $PYTHONUSERBASE, but I think I will not be alone. ;)
Using ~/.local/ for user-managed content doesn't seem right to me at all, because it's hidden by default.
If user-local package installs went to ~/ by default (~/bin/ for scripts, ~/lib/python/ or ~/lib/pythonX.Y/ for modules and packages), with a way to set an alternate "prefix" instead of ~/ using a distutils configuration setting, I'd be happy enough.
I'd be even happier if there were no default per-user location, but a required configuration setting (in the existing distutils config locations) in order to enable per-user installation.
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