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

[Guido van Rossum]

I'm withdrawing my opposition in the light of the sheer number of
words that have already been written with this.

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum schrieb:
>
> > 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.
>
>  The directory name has been commented on by glyph in great length
>  (again). Thanks glyph! I'm all on his side. The base directory for
>  Python related files should be a dot directory in the root directory of
>  the users home dir. I slightly prefer ~/.local/ over other suggestions
>  but I'm also open to ~/.python.d/
>
>  Should I wait with the commit until we have agreed on a directory name
>  or do you want me to commit the code now?
>
>
>  > I might look at this later; but it seems to me to be a pure
>  > optimization and thus not required to be in before the first beta.
>
>  Correct, it's an optimization to enhance the memory utilization.
>
>  Christian
>



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