On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:22:55 +0200, <merwok@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