[Python-Dev] PEP 370, open questions

[Christian Heimes]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> Ah, so ~/.local is "just" a per-user variation on /usr/local? I didn't
> even know of that convention before this thread started, I tend to use
> ~/local (without dot) instead.

I assume ~/.local was first introduced by the freedesktop.org people. On
my box it's only used for some desktop related apps like
~/.local/share/Trash or XFC4.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec

Contrary to ~/local, the dot local directory doesn't show up, unless the
user unhides dot files.

Christian