[Distutils] Experience of setuptools' cache design

[Jim Fulton]

On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
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>> * If the default is to remain to create files on "import", I would
>> like error checking and fall backs. If the cache directory cannot be
>> created in $HOME, I would like the code to create it somewhere else
>> (or not at all) instead of giving me an exception. As end user I did
>> not request the cache-directory to be made, and therefore do not want
>> to be given an exception caused by it not being created. Especially
>> as I do not know what to do with such an exception. Perhaps creating
>> it in /tmp/python-eggs-$USERNAME, for example.
>
> That seems like a reasonable fallback, and I'll take a look at
> implementing it in a future release.  Thanks for the idea!


I'm not sure which of the ideas above you are referring to but I think  
implicitly creating files at run time outside the installed package is  
a bad idea.  I would want some way to prevent it, especially in a  
production environment.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
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