-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Talin wrote:
> 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. I forgot to add in my previous follow up why I'd prefer ~/.local over ~/local. It's a namespace thing. Dot-files in my home directory are like __names__ in Python -- they don't belong to me. Non-dot-names are my namespace so things like ~/local constrain what I can call my own files. When I switched to OS X for most of my desktops, I had several collisions in this namespace. I keep all my homedir files under subversion and could not check out my environment on my new Mac until I named a few directories (this was exacerbated by the case- insensitive file system). I think in general OS X has less philosophical problem with colliding in the non-dot namespace because most OS X users don't ever /see/ their home directory. They see ~/Desktop. Maybe that's what all the kids are into these days, but I still think dot-names are better to use for a wider acceptance. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRW72vXEjvBPtnXfVAQJUmAP8DOQkDJm35xfpSPmvFPXYNZYRhYk8gdSk yMisPq100d5c0lGvW/LjDyLoyi96vd0IQu/WfSgzbe9MBvJ6egP2R0U9hgwytxo5 VcI7jiqel8KFRqgM+4Xqau7MGRiIBGsNX/V5tzGPBA5QP4eSSEFXh/2i9l7ciWJE bN/byz5zlXo= =8CkG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
