On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:23:31AM -0500, songbird wrote: > 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?
Because you seemed to imply that the login user is different from the app user: "the per user app stuff") Apparently you meant something else ? Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list