On 05/03/2011 14:22, Nick Coghlan wrote:
[snip...]
Martin has also indicated that making appropriate changes to the Windows
installer would not be difficult if we agree that changing the 2.7
maintenance branch in this way is appropriate.
True, it's only the more exotic ideas (like trying to do something
about the PYTHON* variables or file associations) that become an
issue.
Right. But those are issues *anyway* and are orthogonal to this
particular one. (And in the case of PYTHON* environment variables not
restricted to windows and not addressed by this PEP for any platform.)
Simply supporting having a python3 version and a python2
version on PATH at the same time could work by duplicating the main
executables (using "python2w" and "python3w" for the non-console
variants), with the sysadmin effectively choosing the preferred
version of the installed versions based on the directory order in
PATH.
Yes. I would also like to see python27.exe and python32.exe (etc) but
that may be a step too far (although Martin was open to it we'll have to
see what final agreement we come to).
All the best,
Michael
Cheers,
Nick.
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