[Python-Dev] PEP 370, open questions

[glyph at divmod.com]

On 12:19 pm, eric+python-dev at trueblade.com wrote:
>glyph at divmod.com 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.