On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Antoine Pitrou<solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@...> writes:
Why is the lib directory ~/.local/lib/pythonVERSION if ~/.local isn't intended to support more than one version of the interpreter?
Because scripts specify which version of the interpreter they use in their shebang line, so they don't need a versioned location. Conversely, libraries have no way to specify for which version of the interpreter they were installed, so their location needs to be versioned. (besides, it is common for a library to be installed for several interpreters because it may be required by several different apps)
This is the same difference as between /usr/bin and /usr/lib/python-X.Y/site-packages.
Regards
Antoine.
I'm not dead yet! /monty python I want to point out that the ./local/bin directory isn't the only thing unversioned - any docs/ which get laid down by a package are also being plopped in .local/docs - not .local/version/docs.