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

[Steve Holden]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Alec> FWIW my vote is for ~/.python. ~/.local comes in a distant second
>     Alec> due to non-obviousness and ~/Python is several light years beyond
>     Alec> that.
> 
> I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree.  I find hiding directories
> which contain executable code extremely non-obvious.  Would you prefer
> /usr/.local to /usr/local?  If not, then why prefer ~/.local to ~/local?
> 
Not wanting to speak for Alec, but in my opinion the answer is mostly 
because /usr/local doesn't impinge on a home directory listing, so I 
don't care that it's visible. Naive users don't go looking around the 
filestore any more than they poke around in their hidden subdirectories.

If you want it visible, make a visible symbolic link!

regards
  Steve
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