Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes: > > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes: > >> If certain use cases > >> make it problematic (e.g. Apache creating directories which you then > >> cannot delete), there should be a way to turn it *off*. Perhaps the > >> existing machinery to turn of byte code generation at all might be > >> sufficient. > > > > Except that you notice the problem when it happens, so turning it off is always > > too late. > > Why is it too late? Fix it, and get on.
Sure, but it is annoying, and since it's the kind of things that noone (including sysadmins) ever thinks about in advance, it's bound to repeat itself quite often. It's especially annoying, of course, if you have to ask someone else to remove the directories for you (or if you have to write custom code and get it executed by the Apache or WSGI handler...). Really, it's unfriendly to users and it's certainly not outweighed by the "benefit" of having "cleaner" source directories. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
