On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: ... >> * If the default is to remain to create files on "import", I would >> like error checking and fall backs. If the cache directory cannot be >> created in $HOME, I would like the code to create it somewhere else >> (or not at all) instead of giving me an exception. As end user I did >> not request the cache-directory to be made, and therefore do not want >> to be given an exception caused by it not being created. Especially >> as I do not know what to do with such an exception. Perhaps creating >> it in /tmp/python-eggs-$USERNAME, for example. > > That seems like a reasonable fallback, and I'll take a look at > implementing it in a future release. Thanks for the idea!
I'm not sure which of the ideas above you are referring to but I think implicitly creating files at run time outside the installed package is a bad idea. I would want some way to prevent it, especially in a production environment. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
