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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 1 Aug, 2010, at 17:22, Éric Araujo 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.

~/Library/Python would be a good location on OSX, even if the 100% formally correct location would be ~/Preferences/Python (at least of framework builds, unix-style builds may want to follow the unix convention).

Ronald

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