On 01/08/2010 18:38, R. David Murray wrote:
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.
I'm happy to choose a location / name based on consensus. There doesn't seem to be any consensus yet. As a (mainly ex) windows user I would hate to have user editable data in APPDATA as it is not a location the user ever expects to visit. The home directory, or a subdirectory thereof, for user editable app specific data is more usual and more friendly. All the best, Michael Foord
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