Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> added the comment: > Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:
> 2 and 3: Alexis most probably added that behavior as a convenience. Unless >I’m mistaken, the point of $TMP/$TMPDIR is that the OS itself will clean it >up, >for example on shutdown, so programs that leave stuff here are not strictly >wrong. However, given the realities of Windows behavior (I recall seeing >“temporary” directories with tons of stuff never cleaned up) and the low cost >of a change (“It's not asking a lot to be given an explicit path to install >to” >+1), my opinion is that we should take your patch as it is. Great. Although /tmp is cleaned up on restart (on Linux at least), waiting for that can lead to problems. For example, I came across this problem when I (for test purposes) installed every single one of the 400+ packages on PyPI which claim to be Py3 compatible, into a virtual env, using "pysetup3 install". I then noticed some (slight) performance slowdown and sudden disappearance of free disk space ... it was all those archives (and their unpacked contents) in /tmp that was the reason. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12391> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
