Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20080502 10:50], Steve Holden (steve at holdenweb.com) wrote: >> Groan. Then everyone else realizes what a "great idea" this is, and we see >> ~/Perl/, ~/Ruby/, ~/C# (that'll screw the Microsoft users, a directory with >> a comment market in its name), ~/Lisp/ and the rest? I don't think people >> would thank us for that in the long term. > > I'm +1 on just using $HOME/.local, but otherwise $HOME/.python makes sense > too. $HOME/.python.d doesn't do it for me, too clunky (and hardly used if I > look at my .files in $HOME). I'd vote for $HOME/.local if asked. I agree with most, if not all, of the arguments posted in favour of this, but would also like to point out the XDG-basedir specification: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html This specification concerns where to put data files rather than libraries, but the relevance here is that the default location to put user-specific files according to it is in $HOME/.local/share Whilst by no means universally followed, uptake amongst Gnome and GTK applications seems to be rising - I certainly have a load of stuff in .local/share/ without ever having configured anything away from the Ubuntu install defaults. So, on Ubuntu computers at least, it seems likely that a $HOME/.local/ directory will already exist, with the beginnings of a unix style layout inside it. -- Richard
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