[Distutils] PEP 376 Status

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On 2010-03-29, at 2:00 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:

>> On a tangent it seems to like --home should be deprecated in favour of
>> --user.  Any toughts on this?
> 
> I personally like to use ~/.local as prefix, but I’m sure there are a lot of people used to have bin, lib and co. in their home directory. I think it’s clutter but everyone is entitled to their preferences, so I don’t think it’s feasible to deprecate --home.

Well, since PEP 370 is more than --home (adds ~/.local to sys.path automatically), I favour deprecation of --home with a message suggesting the user to set "site.USER_BASE" to his home directory.

-srid