On 24/03/2011 03:02, Mark Hammond wrote:
On 24/03/2011 1:20 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
On 24/03/2011 00:44, Dj Gilcrease wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Mark
Hammond<mhamm...@skippinet.com.au> wrote:
If you guys (or anyone) would like to agree on some precise rules for
both
the location of the config file and its contents and express this as
a patch
to the PEP text, I have no problem supporting it in the
implementations.
I'd like to insist that the format of the config file was such that
the
GetPrivateProfileString() Windows function could be used to extract
the data
(eg, only '=' can be used to separate the name/value pair,
case-insensitive
and no support for string interpolation) as I have no interest in
writing my
own config file parser in C :)
In the user directory much like TortoiseHG adds a murcurial.ini file
to the users directory for basic globa config the launch could look
for a python.ini there and use to to add known paths or version
overrides on a user by user basis.
A single global location (for shared installs) or a single per-user
location for per-user installs would seem to be sensible if the config
file route is chosen.
My concern with that would be that an administrator may install
Python, but the user may not have write access to that global
location, leaving that user unable to customize the launcher. OTOH,
that is how things work on Unix today - such users could not change
what /usr/bin/python points to). Always using a per-user location
would mean there is no opportunity to have global settings, but it is
unclear which is the lesser of 2 evils. Supporting both might even be
reasonable if the rules are very straightforward.
I would look first for a local config and fallback to a global config.
That way you can choose your evil... With a single config location for
each it should be simple enough.
I'd still very much like to see the change to the wording of the PEP
to describe this feature though, otherwise I fear different people
will have different assumptions about exactly what it does and how it
does it...
I can provide a suggested pep wording if you like.
Michael
Cheers,
Mark
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