Re: PEP 370, open questions

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> Ah, so ~/.local is "just" a per-user
variation on /usr/local? I didn't
> even know of that convention before this thread
started, I tend to use
> ~/local (without dot) instead.

I assume ~/.local was first introduced by the
freedesktop.org people. On
my box it's only used for some desktop related apps like
~/.local/share/Trash or XFC4.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedi
r-spec

Contrary to ~/local, the dot local directory doesn't show
up, unless the
user unhides dot files.

Christian
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On Jan 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> I assume ~/.local was first introduced by the
freedesktop.org  
> people. On
> my box it's only used for some desktop related apps
like
> ~/.local/share/Trash or XFC4.


I've only seen ~/.local/ defined there, and only
~/.local/share/ in  
that case.  Anything beyond that is grass-roots, and still
pretty  
obscure.

That said, I think extending usage of ~/.local/ is fine for
things  
that aren't supposed to be edited or directly used by users.
 ~/.local/ 
bin/ seems suspect.


   -Fred

-- 
Fred Drake   <fdrake at acm.org>




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