On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 12:14:44PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > Ignoring most that's been said in this thread, would it be possible > > > for the installer to detect the presence of python15.dll in the system > > > directory and offer to delete it? > > > > would the average user know when to click "Yes" ? > > Whenever they don't have a 1.5 installation that they are interested > in preserving. Hm, the registry probably points to where that would > live if it existed, so the installer (or a custom program run > automatically by it) can do more probing if it needs to. Who says they have a 1.5 installation on their system? Maybe the DLL arrived through some third-party application that happens to use/embed Python. Any python*.dll probably should be ignored. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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