[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008

[Nick Coghlan]

Alec Thomas wrote:
> FWIW my vote is for ~/.python. ~/.local comes in a distant second due
> to non-obviousness and ~/Python is several light years beyond that.

I think if the obviousness (or lack thereof) of the chosen directory 
name ever really matters to anyone, we did it wrong. After all, unless 
you're trying to use something other than distutils to get a package 
ready for installation, how often does it really matter that the 
site-packages directory for an installed python interpreter actually 
lives somewhere inside /usr/local?

The main advantage I see to using the "~/.local" approach is that a lot 
of questions about file layout (e.g. where to put architecture specific 
code) are automatically (and fairly obviously) answered "Do whatever is 
done for the system-wide equivalent in /usr/local".

Cheers,
Nick.

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