[Python-Dev] PEP: per user site-packages directory

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Tue Jan 15 13:21:46 CET 2008


Kevin Jacobs <jacobs at bioinformed.com> wrote:
> Never heard of it either, would be completely baffled if caught unawares by
> it in the wild.  Has anyone consulted with the LSB or a cross-platform
> filesystem layout guide to see what the recommended best-practice is?

It took me a while to find a reference to .local. It's part of the
FreeDesktop.Org standards:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

Christian


More information about the Python-Dev mailing list