At 09:31 AM 10/4/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Okay, I've looked at the registry a bit, and it seems like I can register >>App Paths either under HKLM (for the whole machine) or under HKCU (for the >>current user). However, both seem to have issues. >[...] >>2. Register HKCU "App Paths" entries for all console scripts, pointing to a >>second '-conio-.exe' wrapper for the same '-script.py', thus allowing >>console scripts to be run from the "Start/Run" command line. > >As I said in a previous email, keep away from App Paths, and in >particular, don't register an executable under any name but its own. > >There's very little documentation that I could find on what App Paths >should do, so all you've got to go on is experiment and looking at >what others do. No-one that I have seen ever registers an exe under a >different name.
Actually, I've seen *two* on my own PC; one was a game, the other the Adobe SVG viewer. >And some programs (4NT, for example) expect the App >Path name to match the exe name (and give a broken user experience if >that isn't true). Broken how? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
