On 13 March 2012 20:43, VanL <van.lindb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Following up on conversations at PyCon, I want to bring up one of my > personal hobby horses for change in 3.3: Fix install layout on Windows, with > a side order of making the PATH work better.
As this is being considered an 'incompatible change' on the bug tracker item [1] in any case, I'd like to mention that this might also be a convenient moment to re-think the default install location. After all, software is supposed to be installed in %programfiles% on windows, not in c:\<program name>. I asked a question about this on IRC, to which the response was that there were two main reasons to install python in c:\pythonxy: 1 - issues due to spaces ('Program Files') or non-ascii characters in the path ('Fișiere Program' on a Romanian windows). These issues are supposed to be fixed by now (?). 2 - issues due to permissions - installing python / packages in %programfiles% may require administrator rights. Historical note: in python 1.5 the install location was changed to \program files\.., but in python 1.6/2.0 it was changed (back?) to \pythonxy. [2 @ 10618, 10850, 13804] [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue14302 [2] http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/a5add01e96be/Misc/HISTORY _______________________________________________ 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