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Author eric.araujo
Recipients barry, doko, eric.araujo, fwierzbicki, georg.brandl, lemburg, michael.foord, ned.deily, pitrou, r.david.murray, ronaldoussoren, tarek
Date 2009-11-06.03:10:43
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Message-id <1257477045.33.0.457874833875.issue7175@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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When ~/.local/lib was chosen for the user directory, the BaseDir Spec
was given as prior example. Why not go the full way and follow the spec?
The config file could be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python/distutils, with
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaulting to ~/.config.

References:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg (deals with
freedesktop.org-approved file formats too; the part of the code that
deals with paths would make a useful addition to the stdlib, as more and
more applications follow the spec)
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Date User Action Args
2009-11-06 03:10:45eric.araujosetrecipients: + eric.araujo, lemburg, barry, georg.brandl, doko, ronaldoussoren, pitrou, tarek, fwierzbicki, ned.deily, r.david.murray, michael.foord
2009-11-06 03:10:45eric.araujosetmessageid: <1257477045.33.0.457874833875.issue7175@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-11-06 03:10:43eric.araujolinkissue7175 messages
2009-11-06 03:10:43eric.araujocreate