[Python-Dev] Fixing #7175: a standard location for Python config files

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:57:57 -0400
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Aug 12, 2010, at 09:10 AM, Fred Drake wrote:
> 
> >Perhaps user configuration belongs in ~/.local/, or ~/.local/python/
> >(with attendant Windows & Mac OS noises); I don't really care where it
> >lands, because right now we just have a mess.  Getting it "right" with
> >respect to Window's "roaming" notion and how people expect to work
> >with it is... unlikely.  Picking a place is better than not, so we
> >know where to find things.  But that's all it buys us.
> 
> I've missed most of this discussion while on vacation, but if ~/.local is
> supposed to mirror /usr/local, then wouldn't a logical place for per-user
> configuration files be ~/.local/etc/whatever.cfg?

I think this has already been debated, -1 on it.

Antoine.