Greg Ewing wrote: > Barry Warsaw wrote: >> I'm not sure I like ~/.local though >> - -- it seems counter to the app-specific dot-file approach old >> schoolers like me are used to. > > Problems with that are starting to show, though. > There's a particular Unix account that I've had for > quite a number of years, accumulating much stuff. > Nowadays when I do ls -a ~, I get a directory > listing several screens long... > > The whole concept of "hidden" files seems ill- > considered to me, anyway. It's too easy to forget > that they're there. Putting infrequently-referenced > stuff in a non-hidden location such as ~/local > seems just as good and less magical to me.
On OS X, you of course have ~/Library. I suppose the Linux equivalent would be something like ~/lib. Maybe this is something that we should be asking the LSB folks for advice on? > > -- > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/talin%40acm.org > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
