
On 05 May 2000, Michael Muller said:
I totally agree with the site-home-currentdir structure, but shouldn't the site level file live someplace apart from the code? If you customize the site file, you probably don't want your changes clobbered by a subsequent distutils install. sys.prefix + '/etc', perhaps?
That's the nice thing about how sys.prefix "belongs" to Python on Windows and Mac OS. I'm not super-keen on /usr/local/etc; I'd rather keep the Distutils config file somewhere in the Python library tree. Thus, the distutils (or site-packages/distutils, for pre-1.6) directory makes sense. I'm open to other ideas. Clobbering on subsequent installations can be prevented by not installing a config file; that'll make it a little harder for people to find out that they have the option of customizing via a config file, but that doesn't bother me excessively. (Awww, the poor babies will have to read a manual... *sniff* *sniff*) Anyone else give a hoot? Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix bigot gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proven innocent.