[Discussion] Output directory

[engelvinter]

Basicly what I am doing is to setup/creating packages for Tellprox in Alpine Linux (a small secure ram-based Linux distro for routers - http://alpinelinux.org and https://github.com/engelvinter/aports). Explains my interest in setup.py :-)

I'm thinking of doing another update:
An optional output path when starting e.g.
python -m tellprox /myoutput/path
Note: If not supplying any path everything will be backward compatible

Why:
I want tellprox to run as the user 'tellprox', writing config.ini and compiled.js into an output directory (having permissions for user tellprox).
In the directory /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/tellprox only root has permission to write.
Also since Alpine Linux is ram-based I want the config.ini written to a directory which is flashed to disc.

[p3tecracknell]

Feel free to put a patch through. I support the idea, in fact think it's a good idea. I don't use Linux as my main OS so don't organise python scripts as much to use it, but if it helps, then definitely.
main.py has got a bit unwieldy and needs a clean up, so feel free to patch it your way as I'll be giving it a clean up when I can.