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Wed Sep 3 16:23:27 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-September/082182.html

Mark Hammond <mhammond <at> skippinet.com.au> writes:
> 
> I mean that many Windows use the PATH, and as such, may fail if a new
> directory is added to the PATH that contains a DLL they indirectly use.

Then it's just a matter of not putting any DLLs in those directories, isn't it?

> If I *did* expect other programs to be able to find a
> 'python.exe', I'm not sure I'd want to risk that installing a later version
> of Python will change what Python is found.

Most Linux distributions solve that by installing binaries named
/usr/bin/python2.4, /usr/bin/python2.5, etc., and making /usr/bin/python a
symlink to one of those. Thus if a program relies on particular Python version,
it can just use a specific executable rather than a generic one.

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