At 04:29 PM 9/17/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >On 9/17/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>At 02:38 PM 9/17/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >> >BTW, if you really want to make easy_install.exe available on the >> >command line without needing a PATH entry, you can do what python.exe >> >does: create a registry key >> > >> >HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\easy_install.exe >[...] >>Unfortunately, the details it gives are wrong. Neither cmd.exe, >>command.com, nor bash will find a program registered this way, at least on >>my Win2K PC. This appears to *only* work for the Start/Run menu. Which >>isn't a bad start; I imagine that setuptools "GUI scripts" should be >>installed this way on Windows until/unless we get a way to give them menu >>entries or icons. >[...] >>As far as I can tell, *despite* what the MSDN docs say about App Paths, it >>is strictly a GUI facility and has no effect on command >>shells. (Interestingly, the lower-level SDK's show why - CreateProcess() >>ignores app paths, and only ShellExecute takes it into account. That's how >>I figured out that I could use the "start" command as well as the Start/Run >>menu option.) > >Sorry about that. I use 4NT, and it never occurred to me that CMD >didn't do this as well. Does this mean that on a standard PC, with >CMD.exe, typing "python" at he command prompt (with Python installed >from the standard installer) doesn't work???!?? > >[A quick test in VMWare later] > >Wow! It really doesn't! That seems, well, "less than ideal" :-( How >does anyone live with that? I guess command-line Python users on >Windows are used to needing to fix up PATH...
Interestingly, I find that you can create an App Paths entry for cmd.exe that adds things to *its* path, but it only works if you start cmd using the "start" command or Start/Run. It doesn't work if you invoke cmd from another shell, nor does it help if you're using a different shell. Ugh. I think getting a workable command-line environment on Windows without end-user customization is an exercise in futility. :( _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
