On 09/01/2008, Michael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
Only because Windows XP uses a stupidly long path with spaces in it. It's not actually *hard* to navigate manually to these directories.
The directories are also hidden. That does make it hard to navigate there. I know you can un-hide hidden files, but I view the hidden attribute as useful - just badly misused in this case, unless you assume that these directories are intended to be left alone by the user.
What user editing is *meant* to be done with extension modules installed into a site directory. Programmer editing maybe... :-)
Sorry, I had drifted slightly off topic here. I don't have a problem with user-specific extensions going in appdata, on the presumption that we're talking code only (and excluding something obscure like distutils' distutils.cfg file). Paul.