On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:22:55 +0200, <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > > Speaking of which... Your documentation says it's named ~/unittest.cfg, > > could you make this a file in the user base (that is, the prefix where > > 'setup.py install --user' will install files)? > > Putting .pydistutils.cfg .pypirc .unittest2.cfg .idlerc and possibly > other in the user home directory (or %APPDATA% on win32 and > what-have-you on Mac) is unnecessary clutter. However, $PYTHONUSERBASE > is not the right directory for configuration files, as pointed in > http://bugs.python.org/issue7175 > > It would be nice to agree on a ~/.python (resp. %APPADATA%/Python) or > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python directory and put config files there.
+1 Certainly ~/unittest.cfg is the wrong name for unix (it doesn't start with a '.'), and certainly the location is OS specific. Anyone who cares about config file locations should read issue 7175. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ 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
