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

[Michael Foord]

On 01/08/2010 18:38, R. David Murray wrote:
> 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.
>    

I'm happy to choose a location / name based on consensus. There doesn't 
seem to be any consensus yet. As a (mainly ex) windows user I would hate 
to have user editable data in APPDATA as it is not a location the user 
ever expects to visit. The home directory, or a subdirectory thereof, 
for user editable app specific data is more usual and more friendly.

All the best,

Michael Foord

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