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

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:03 PM,  <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
>> On 11:45 pm, guido at python.org wrote:
>>
>> > I like this, except one issue: I really don't like the .local
>> > directory. I don't see any compelling reason why this needs to be
>> > ~/.local/lib/ -- IMO it should just be ~/lib/. There's no need to hide
>> > it from view, especially since the user is expected to manage this
>> > explicitly.
>> >
>>
>>  I've previously given a spirited defense of ~/.local on this list (
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076173.html ) among
>> other places.
>>
>>  Briefly, "lib" is not the only directory participating in this convention;
>> you've also got the full complement of other stuff that might go into an
>> installation like /usr/local.  So, while "lib" might annoy me a little, "bin
>> etc games include lib lib32 man sbin share src" is going to get ugly pretty
>> fast, especially if this is what comes up in Finder or Nautilus or Explorer
>> every time I open a window.
> 
> Unless I misread the PEP, there's only going to be a lib subdirectory.
> Python packages don't put stuff in other places AFAIK.

Maybe. But when I install other software in my homedir, I install it to
~/.local, precisely to avoid what Glyph said about getting the full set
of subdirs, and it would be nice for Python to fit into this scheme.

> On the Mac, the default Finder window is not your home directory but
> your Desktop, which is a subdirectory thereof with a markedly public
> name. In fact, OS X has a whole bunch of reserved names in your home
> directory, and none of them start with a dot. The rule seems to be
> that if it contains stuff that the user cares about, it doesn't start
> with a dot.

That's not my rule, and it seems that at least Barry and Glyph agree.

Georg


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