support paths relative to the user's home directory (~/foo)
Bug #190260 reported by
Marius Gedminas
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Buildout |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'd like to specify the download cache relative to my home directory. The traditional Unix way is
[buildout]
download-cache = ~/tmp/buildout-
however zc.buildout currently doesn't interpret '~'.
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I wonder if a more general solution wouldn't be to expand environment variables in buildout.cfg files. Then you'd be able to say
[buildout] buildout- download- cache
download-cache = $HOME/tmp/
I think I'd like that better than ~ expansion, but honestly I don't have an immediate use case other than $HOME.