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Wed Jan 16 19:24:11 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076230.html

>     >> ~/Library/ is a Mac OS X thing.
> 
>     Bill> Sure, but it's clearly where this should be on an OS X system, by
>     Bill> default.  
> 
> I think only for stuff that is a Mac-ish GUI app type of thing and/or that
> plays with Mac's distinct APIs (Carbon, Cocoa, whatever).  Would you
> install, for example, a personal version of gcc there?  I wouldn't, but
> that's just me.

Is that really the question?  I'd agree with you there.  But if you
wanted a standard per-user place where gcc would look for custom
filters of some sort, on OS X, I'd think it would be appropriate.
Which makes more sense, to me, as an analogue of a per-user
site-packages directory.

Bill

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