On 12:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >MacOS isn't the only platform that has this problem. I use cygwin >under >Windows, and I wish Python (whether or not a cygwin build) would also >use ~/.local.
I would like to agree. MacOS has an advantage here though. Windows, even without cygwin, but doubly so once cygwin gets involved, has a schizophrenic idea of what "~" means. (I believe other messages in this thread have made reference to issues with expanduser.) You definitely are going to have a hard time getting non-cygwin and cygwin python to agree on the location of your home directory. I rather brutally modified my last Windows installation to get those two values to line up, and it required surgery for each user created, and caused a number of "interesting issues" with various tools writing fake cygwin UNIX paths and others thinking they were Windows drive-letter paths... >>Windows has this problem less because everything has to be done so >>completely differently. > >True, except that cygwin tries hard to make it look like Unix. I'd >rather Python under Windows really look like Unix, but I'm probably in >a >minority. And yes, I do share computers (physically and through >Terminal Server), so per-user local libraries would be nice. If you can figure out how to make this work without raising any of the bogeymen I just made reference to, I would be strongly in favor. _______________________________________________ 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
