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

[Nick Coghlan]

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> -On [20080502 10:50], Steve Holden (steve at holdenweb.com) wrote:
>> Groan. Then everyone else realizes what a "great idea" this is, and we see 
>> ~/Perl/, ~/Ruby/, ~/C# (that'll screw the Microsoft users, a directory with 
>> a comment market in its name), ~/Lisp/ and the rest? I don't think people 
>> would thank us for that in the long term.
> 
> I'm +1 on just using $HOME/.local, but otherwise $HOME/.python makes sense
> too. $HOME/.python.d doesn't do it for me, too clunky (and hardly used if I
> look at my .files in $HOME).
> 
> But I agree with Steve that it should be a hidden directory.

This sums up my opinion pretty well. Hidden by default, but easy to 
expose (e.g. via a local -> .local symlink) for the more experienced 
users that want it more easily accessible.

Cheers,
Nick.

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