<html><body>On 04:11 am, fdrake@acm.org wrote:<br />>On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:20, glyph@divmod.com wrote:<br />> > GNOME et. al. aren't promoting the concept too hard.  It's just the first<br />> > convention I came across.  (Pardon the lack of references here, but it's<br />> > very hard to google for "~/.local" - I just know that I was looking for a<br />> > convention when I wrote combinator, and this is the one I found.)<br />><br />>~/.local/ is described in the "XDG Base Directory Specification":<br />><br />>    http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/<br /><br />Thanks for digging that up!  Not a whole lot of meat there, but at least it gives me some env vars to set / check...<br /><br />> > On the "easy_install" naming front, how about "layegg"?<br />><br />>Actually, why not just "egg"?<br /><br />That works for me.  I assumed there was some other reason the obvious answer hadn't been chosen :).</body></html>