> [2] And they are right to do so. Programs that dump config files and > directories, hidden or not, in the top level of the user's home directory > are incredibly rude. It may have been a Unix standard for as long as > there has been a Unix, but it's still the programming equivalent of > coming into somebody's house and throwing your tools all over their > living room floor.
Personally, I feel the same way about dumping files into the python site-package directory .... For example, I've never understood why kde and qt packages don't use a sub-dir to house their xxxx.so libs .... Moving the xxxx.egg-info files into sub-dirs or their own tree would also clean up the site-packages dir .... -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
