On 2010-03-29, at 2:00 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: >> On a tangent it seems to like --home should be deprecated in favour of >> --user. Any toughts on this? > > I personally like to use ~/.local as prefix, but I’m sure there are a lot of > people used to have bin, lib and co. in their home directory. I think it’s > clutter but everyone is entitled to their preferences, so I don’t think it’s > feasible to deprecate --home.
Well, since PEP 370 is more than --home (adds ~/.local to sys.path automatically), I favour deprecation of --home with a message suggesting the user to set "site.USER_BASE" to his home directory. -srid _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
