[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] PEP 370 (was Re: Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008)

[Christian Heimes]

Greg Ewing schrieb:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> The location will be somewhere under ~/.local
>> for Unix/Linux/OS X,
> 
> Can I just put in a plea for this to be somewhere
> under ~/Library on OSX, and not hidden?
> 
> MacOSX already has clear conventions for this sort
> of thing -- there's no need to use a dot-name there.

~/Library is only used by framework builds of Python so far. Framework
builds include ~/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages and ~/.local/.. and
non-framework builds just the ~/.local directory.

Can you come up with a path that fits the purpose of a base directory?

Christian