On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> wrote: > > > All worked without incident for me under Win95. Nice! Would still prefer > > > that it install to D:\Python-1.6\ by default, though (instead of burying it > > > under "Program Files" -- if you're not on the Help list, you can't believe > > > how hard it is to explain how to deal with embedded spaces in paths). > > > > Ack! No way... Keep my top-level clean! :-) > > > > This is Windows. Apps go into Program Files. That is Just The Way It Is. > > if you're on a US windows box, sure. but "Program Files" > isn't exactly an international standard... Yes it is... if you use the appropriate Windows APIs (or registry... forget where). Windows specifies a way to get the localized name for Program Files. > we install our python distribution under the \py<version>, > and we get lot of positive responses. as far as I remember, > nobody has ever reported problems setting up the path... *shrug* This doesn't dispute the standard Windows recommendation to install software into Program Files. > > When was the last time you saw /python on a Unix box? Never? Always in > > .../bin/? Thought so. > > if the Unix designers had come up with the bright idea of > translating "bin" to "whatever might seem to make sense > in this language", I think you'd see many more non-std in- > stallations under Unix... especially if they'd made the root > directory writable to everyone :-) heh :-) Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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