Tim Golden wrote: > Christian Heimes wrote: >> I'll justify why I view Python as a roaming app. All >> company and university Linux boxes I've used in the past had exported >> $HOME via NFS. So ~/.local is roamed. > > I think there is a slight subtlety here: the exported NFS > $HOME is more equivalent to the HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH which > comes from the HOME directory in NT/AD. ie it is simply > a share pointed to by a drive letter available wherever > the user logs on. Roaming profiles actually *copy* the > data from your network versions of USERPROFILE to the > local machine [need to check they still do this; a while > since I've administered this kind of setup]. > > The difference therefore is that installing large quantities > of Python modules into a roaming profile path will involve > their being copied to-and-fro on logon/logoff which, historically > at least, was a known cause of slow startup/shutdown. I'll > try to confirm if this is still the case.
I can't comment on the matter. I've not used roaming user profiles on Windows for more than five years. Can someone with more experience shed some like on the matter? > My own feeling was to use ~/.local on Windows as well > (or whatever is agreed on for *nix) and let os.path.expanduser > handle it. But... from r54364, USERPROFILE takes priority > over HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH. Obviously Georg had some rationale > there although a quick search of python-dev doesn't throw > anything up. If we decide anything else here, though, we > would seem to be somewhat in conflict with that interpretation > of home/~ as USERPROFILE. The PEP already explains why I don't want to write to ~/ on Windows. I had considered it shortly but MSDN advices against it. Is %USERPROFILE% not equal to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%? Maybe Gregor did a mistake because he thought that both point to the same location. Christian _______________________________________________ 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
