Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes: > In that case, some points: > > 1. A "silent by default" installer like this is not very usual in the > Windows world, I'd have expected a confirmation dialog at least. For > silent installs, msiexec /silent is available.
Agreed, a "success" message is probably a good idea for the standalone launcher. The installer is a bit tentative because (a) the PEP is still under discussion, and (b) I don't know exactly how launcher installation will work as part of Python installation. > 2. I thought the idea from the PEP was to put py.exe/pyw.exe into a > "system" location which is already on the PATH (likely > windows\system32, or whatever the 64-bit equivalent is). That way, py > or py -3 and similar can be used to launch the interactive > interpreter. This can always be changed in the installer - the PEP says install in System32 "if possible", and I'm not yet sure of all the security/permissions implications of that. The current location should be usable for test purposes, even if you have to manually add to the path for now. > 3. Given that you're not installing in system32, you should add the > install dir to PATH (and remove it on uninstall ) That's definitely > a second-best option, though, so I'd rather you didn't, but installed > in system32 instead I'll look at changing the installer builds to do this. > 4. If you embed both of the py.ico and pyc.ico files into the launcher > exes, you wouldn't need to have them as separate files (I see py.ico > is embedded already) and so the footprint becomes 2 exes and an ini > file. That might be a bit more palatable for people who are > uncomfortable with installing into somewhere like system32. > > Otherwise it looks great. > Thanks for the feedback. Please log any implementation-related issues on the BitBucket tracker. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com