GeezerVison

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:58 AM,  <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
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>  As I've said a dozen times in this thread already, the feature I'd like to
> get from a per-user installation location is that 'setup.py install', or at
> least some completely canonical distutils incantation, should work, by
> default, for non-root users; ideally non-administrators on windows as well
> as non-root users on unixish platforms.
>

This is a big +1 from me. The way I currently work around the "must be
root to install stuff" on both OS/X and other Lin/Uni(xes) is via
virtualenv.py and a lot of bash environment trickery.  If nothing else
comes out of this, I think what glyph points out is the ideal, and
simplest goal. Ignoring the directory name debate, I would like to see
this local "user" dir mirror the normal directory tree that packages
installed from distutils/setuptools typically use, namely it should
have the: lib/site-packages/<your module here> and bin/<your scripts
here> directories, and a known parent name.

One thing that could be done is pick a default name for the parent,
ala ~/Python - but let users override it with an environment variable
if they so desire (PYTHON_USER_DIR?) so that those who want it hidden
can have it hidden, and those of us who don't, don't.

-jesse