Dave Brueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Terry Reedy wrote: >> If there is something about the default install of Python on Windows >> that makes it less desireable or less easy than other platforms, >> then maybe that can be fixed. To make installation easier, maybe >> someone could write a small .exe that could be frozen with scripts >> or run with installers and that would detect the presence/absence of >> the needed Python version and offer an auto download and install if >> needed. > > I mostly agree with the sentiment, but it does break down a little in > practice. At least currently it does - like you said, this is fixable, > but nobody has signed up to fix it yet. > > The main thing that's needed is a zero-input Python distribution - a > Python runtime, if you will - that (1) gets installed to a "good" > place (2) does so without asking the user to do anything, (3) can > coexist with different versions of the runtime, and (4) is easily > detectable by applications wanting to use it.
The effbot.exe platform (or how it's called) ? > One other minor component is a small launcher executable, because on > Windows it's non-trivial to find out which "python.exe" in the task > manager is running which Python script. Anyway, each app would have a > small launcher that bootstraps the actual Python script[1]. (Or, if > there's some way to trick the task manager into displaying something > besides "python.exe", that'd work too) exemaker? Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
