On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Dave Peterson wrote: > Shortcuts don't, but file associations to those shortcuts do (at least to > the best of my understanding,) adding paths does, etc. I agree that a > library (extensions or no) doesn't need to do these things. But anything > targeted at an end-user on Windows has a reasonable chance of wanting > them.
> Here I thought I was being pretty clear that I was only requesting that > things not be done to explicitly make it hard (or impossible) for someone > else to extend setuptools (or whatever replaces / refactors it) to do > these things. I am +1 on this request. I am not a Windows users, but I would still like to see my applications appear in the menus when I ship them. And now free-desktop has a nice specification to do this, so it is technically possible. My 2 cents, Gaël _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
