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

[Christian Heimes]

Steve Holden schrieb:
> Nothing to say about OS X.
> 
> One day Windows might start to respect the "hidden dot" convention, but
> perhaps in the interim we could create a (Windows-hidden) ~/.private/?
> Assuming we could work out where to put it ;-)

Windows and Mac OS X have dedicated directories for application specific
libraries. That is ~/Library on Mac and Application Data on Windows. The
latter is i18n-ed and called "Anwendungsdaten" in German. Fortunately
Windows sets an environment var to the application data directory.

Christian