[Python-Dev] PEP 370, open questions

[Christian Heimes]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> The Mac directories look fine to me.
> 
> Is it worthwhile to note in the PEP that the directories for the Mac are
> already used in Python 2.5?

Good point!

>> * Mac: Should framework and non-framework builds of Python use
>>  the same directories?
> 
> Yes, because that makes supporting users easier and keeps things nice
> and simple (no need to ask which kind of Python they installed to
> determine where their user directory is).  Distutils should already link
> extensions in a way that allows you to have a python2.6 unix-build and
> framework-build that share the same site-packages directory.

Have you read glyph's posting? He brought up some good points why Python
on Mac should use ~/.local.

Framework builds have an additional import directory in ~/Library/Python

Christian