r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Meredith Montgomery <mmontgom...@levado.to> writes: >>Wouldn't it be great if it were portable by default? > > I think under Windows there is a division of software > suggested by Microsoft, a division of software into > executable code and data (data may change in time). > > The executable code is supposed to rest under > "C:\Program Files" the contents of which cannot be > modified by user processes easily. Program configuration > can be stored below "AppData" in the user directory. > It is supposed to be more secure when executable code > cannot be modified easily by user processes. > > So far, Python has decided to ignore this and install > everything under AppData as I understand it. So one > gets neither the security of "Program Files" nor the > possibility to move it to another directory easily.
Interesting. I like portable things. You copy from one place to another and it just runs. As it should. Things should be simple. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list