-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ~/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 :). I feel pretty strongly that ~/bin should *not* be used. It makes sense to me that ~/.local would mirror /usr/local. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR4vA+XEjvBPtnXfVAQICEgP8CAuFVzZld1769uQKDWj2h4Y7x+besq5o 9bujNYJ6SayNac4u1jWLWmCIdBSuQU6/xNF6+ljpn5Pz4H/yRBl/HK2ibF2ksZwg quv23PHLvMnLju77FNKE5VclVJk3rBKpkpjmS/yXMcyfBwAccIDEJY+QUshtQzql 8mRZ4cEUP0I= =gepD -----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
