On 06:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I think the relevant link to change here would be ~/.local. >> >>I have personally been using the ~/.local convention for a while, and >>I >>believe ~/.local/bin is where scripts should go. Python is not the >>only >>thing that can be locally installed, and the fact that it's >>~/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages suggests that ~/.local has the >>same layout as /usr (or /usr/local, for those who use that >>convention). > >~/.local/bin or ~/bin ? > >~/bin is the standard directory for user binaries.
"the" standard directory? according to what? commented-out examples in some linux distribution? >I can see how ~/.local/bin follows the idea of other directories. I think consistency is important here. Python is not the only tool that could follow this convention, and it would be nice to have a consistent convention that it would be easy for other tools and environments to adopt. >But ~/bin is more >convenient than ~/.local/bin. I don't want to teach users how to change >their .bashrc or .profile file for ~/.local/bin. A line like as you say, it is often commented out. You have to teach users this anyway, even if sometimes it will work by accident. ~/bin comes from the convention of "./configure --prefix=$HOME", as autoconf suggests. This means users must have visible directories in their home folder named (among other things) "bin", "share", "lib", "src", "sbin", "man", and "include". I find this ugly. I only find it slightly less ugly that Python will now hide its locally-installed library files from me but not its locally-installed executable scripts. "./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local" will instead put things into ~/.local/bin, ~/.local/lib, etc. Now, I am aware that setup.py already has a special "--home" option, and it can be incompatibly changed, but I don't see a reason for this. Note that --home $HOME will currently put files into ~/lib, not ~/.local/lib. (and --home $HOME/local will put scripts into ~/.local/bin, not ~/bin). But, now that I've told you what I think in more detail, unless you like my ideas and have specific questions, I will try to refrain from commenting further, lest I dig my own bike shed here :). _______________________________________________ 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
