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Author	flying sheep
Recipients	barry, doko, eric.araujo, flying sheep, fwierzbicki, georg.brandl, glyph, lemburg, martin.panter, michael.foord, ned.deily, pitrou, r.david.murray, ronaldoussoren, steve.dower, tarek
Date	2015年09月03日.11:37:19
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Message-id	<1441280239.66.0.532158431723.issue7175@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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you’re right about the two problems being mixed, however not about the standards. also you’re intermingling conventions with actual standards. the directory standards for all three big OSs are either not going to change or fitted with a backwards-compatibility layer (like windows did with the "My Music/Videos/*" folders): https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/MacOSXDirectories/MacOSXDirectories.html http://windows.microsoft.com/de-de/windows-8/what-appdata-folder https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html all three OSs have stable, widely followed standards in place, and the idea of providing a python stdlib API for them received an almost unanimously positive response – with the sole exception being you.

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you’re right about the two problems being mixed, however not about the standards.
also you’re intermingling conventions with actual standards.
the directory standards for all three big OSs are either not going to change or fitted with a backwards-compatibility layer (like windows did with the "My Music/Videos/*" folders):
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/MacOSXDirectories/MacOSXDirectories.html
http://windows.microsoft.com/de-de/windows-8/what-appdata-folder
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
all three OSs have stable, widely followed standards in place, and the idea of providing a python stdlib API for them received an almost unanimously positive response – with the sole exception being you.

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2015年09月03日 11:37:19	flying sheep	set	recipients: + flying sheep, lemburg, barry, georg.brandl, doko, ronaldoussoren, pitrou, tarek, fwierzbicki, ned.deily, glyph, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, michael.foord, martin.panter, steve.dower
2015年09月03日 11:37:19	flying sheep	set	messageid: <1441280239.66.0.532158431723.issue7175@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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