On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: > > > 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. > > no, but Tim's and my experiences from doing user support show that > the standard Windows recommendation doesn't work for command line > applications. we don't care about Microsoft, we care about Python's > users. Valid point. But there are other solutions, too. VC distributes a thing named "VCVARS.BAT" to set up paths and other environ vars. Python could certainly do the same thing (to overcome the embedded-space issue). > to quote a Linus Torvalds, "bad standards _should_ be broken" Depends on the audience of that standard. Programmers: yah. Consumers? They just want the damn thing to work like they expect it to. That expectation is usually "I can find my programs in Program Files." > (after all, Microsoft doesn't put their own command line applications > down there -- there's no "\Program Files" [sub]directory in the default > PATH, at least not on any of my boxes. maybe they've changed that > in Windows 2000?) Incorrect. Site Server had command-line tools down there. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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