[Distutils] distutils.cfg vs pydistutils.cfg

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> 2009/8/4 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:
>> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>> On Aug 3, 2009, at 4:45 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would be nice to have a user config *directory* for all Python
>>>> config things, e.g. ~/.python/. Then it'd be natural to drop
>>>> the ".py" prefix. Without the prefix, people would have a hard time
>>>> connecting a .distutils.cfg in their home dir with Python.
>>>
>>> Python already uses ~/.local for stuff.  It should go in there.
>>
>> You have a point there... we could put the user local config
>> files into ~/.local/lib/python2.6/ and then name it distutils.cfg
>> just like for the system-wide install.
> 
> So in that case I suppose I have to lookup at PYTHONUSERBASE as well,
> as done on site.py.
> 
> I also propose if that's the case, to add a function in site.py that
> returns USER_SITE and USER_BASE,
> so it can be used by site.addusersitepackages *and* by distutils here

+1

While you're at it, please also add a function that returns the
global site-packages dir(s).

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