[Python-Dev] proto-pep: plugin proposal (for unittest)

[R. David Murray]

On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:22:55 +0200, <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> > Speaking of which... Your documentation says it's named ~/unittest.cfg,
> > could you make this a file in the user base (that is, the prefix where
> > 'setup.py install --user' will install files)?
> 
> Putting .pydistutils.cfg .pypirc .unittest2.cfg .idlerc and possibly
> other in the user home directory (or %APPDATA% on win32 and
> what-have-you on Mac) is unnecessary clutter. However, $PYTHONUSERBASE
> is not the right directory for configuration files, as pointed in
> http://bugs.python.org/issue7175
> 
> It would be nice to agree on a ~/.python (resp. %APPADATA%/Python) or
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python directory and put config files there.

+1

Certainly ~/unittest.cfg is the wrong name for unix (it doesn't start
with a '.'), and certainly the location is OS specific. 

Anyone who cares about config file locations should read issue 7175.

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R. David Murray                                      www.bitdance.com