I have made a Racket library for convenience in accessing the XDG Basedir directories. As I want the library to be useable on Windows as well (for cross-platform programs), I have it use standard W...

Is there a convention where to place the 'files' representing the end points to Unix Domain Sockets? I tend to put them to /tmp/some-application-specific-subdir-name/, but I wonder if there is a m...

As the title asks, what is the technically proper location to store Python virtual environments on Linux operating systems according to the Linux FHS? Stated another way that allows for a clear a...

I am creating a debian package for a library and would like to install binary samples. I was thinking to put them under /usr/share/libname, but lintian complains (arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share)....

Suppose we have a program called foo. If use absolute path: setup(..., data_files=[..., ('/etc', ['foo.cfg'])] ) Then foo$ python setup.py --prefix=/usr/local and we will have /etc/foo.cfg. B...