On 07/03/2011 17:21, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: > > On Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:41, Michael Foord<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk >> <mailto:fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>>wrote: >> - Hide quoted message - >>> I would like to see us create version specific (i.e. python32.exe / >>> python32w.exe) binaries (or links if we drop support for earlier >>> versions of Windows or some filesystems - I'm agnostic on that >>> issue) *plus* a python3.exe / python3w.exe with "last install wins" >>> (as it is for currently for file associations). >> I don't have an ActiveState install on this machine, but I know they >> have been adding some form of version specific binaries for a while, >> so maybe they can comment on what they chose and how they chose it, >> and how people are using it. Are Sridhar or Trent on here? > ActivePython for Windows includes the following binaries on Windows: > > * python.exe > * python3.2.exe > * python3.xe > (plus the `pythonw` versions) > > python3.2.exe is better than python32.exe because that matches the > invocation (eg: "python3.2 -m foo") on Unix. > > Similarly for 2.x (python2.exe / python2.7.exe). > > All of this is particularly useful if the installer adds Python > directory to %PATH% (which is the case for ActivePython, but not the > one from python.org). Sounds ideal. :-) Michael > > -srid -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20110307/a72810a3/attachment.html>
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