>> If the files are shared among all users then /usr/local/<something> >> seems more reasonable.
Oh, right, I forgot to think about system-wide config files. They have to be supported by another function in site. A lot of programs have similar-looking code to get a list of filenames and then process it with configparser or something else: find_config_files in Distutils, get_standard_config_files in Docutils, rcpath in Mercurial. There are different namings to support (rc, .cfg, .conf, etc.) and also config directories (for Mercurial), but it does not seem impossible to define a standard function that would benefit Python itself and other programs. > Choosing an arbitrary location we think is good on every system is fine > and non risky I think, as long as Python let the various distribution > change those paths though configuration. Don’t you have a bootstrapping problem? How do you know where to look at the sysconfig file that tells where to look at config files? > In fact, that's one of the future goal of the sysconfig module I had in mind. Seems great. > So let's: > > - define all the default locations for each system > - define a sysconfig.cfg file that contains all installation paths, > for each target system > - change sysconfig.py so it uses it, instead of the global dicts it > currently has I wonder if this is so complex that a wiki page or something else would be better suited than email to iron out the proposal. Or maybe it’s time for that sysconfig.cfg PEP you planned to do. Regards _______________________________________________ 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
