Karsten Hilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> > What about running a multi-tenant application (for multiple users who >> > are not also system-users) - cf them logging-on to run their own. It is >> > appropriate, possibly even "required" to keep Fred's config file, >> > reports, graphs, logs, etc; separate from Barney's. Ideally they will >> > not be sub-dirs of the application/package. >> >> if it is per user defined then $HOME/.config/<app-name>, >> $HOME/.local/share/<app-name> and any temporary data can go >> in $HOME/.cache/<app-name> will do it for posix on Windows >> there is the per user app stuff which i haven't sorted out >> yet. >> >> $HOME changes per user login name change. > > $HOME/.config/<app-name>/<app-user>/ > $HOME/.cache/<app-name>/<app-user>/
that makes no sense as you already have unique user name covered by $HOME so why repeat again? songbird -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list