On 23 March 2012 03:20, Brian Curtin br...@python.org wrote:
Breakage of existing tools: Mark Hammond, Paul Moore, and Tim Golden have
all expressed that they have existing tools that would break and would need
to be adjusted to match the new location of the python.exe, because that
location
On 23/03/2012 7:10 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
On 23 March 2012 03:20, Brian Curtinbr...@python.org wrote:
Breakage of existing tools: Mark Hammond, Paul Moore, and Tim Golden have
all expressed that they have existing tools that would break and would need
to be adjusted to match the new location of
On 22 March 2012 23:15, VanL van.lindb...@gmail.com wrote:
Another use case was just pointed out to me: making things consistent with
buildout. Given a similar use
case (create repeatable cross platform environments), they create and use a
'bin' directory for executable files.
Another
[PART 2: Moving the python binary]
There are two proposals on the table: 1) Regularize the install layout,
and 2) move the python binary to the binaries directory. This email
deals with the second issue exclusively. This has been the more
contentious issue.
2) Moving the Python exe:
A
Another use case was just pointed out to me: making things consistent with
buildout. Given a similar use case (create repeatable cross platform
environments), they create and use a 'bin' directory for executable files.
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Given the cost of the change, and the advent of the PEP-397 Launcher, I
also vote -1.
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2012/3/22 VanL van.lindb...@gmail.com:
Open Issues:
If we do put python.exe on PATH (whether it's in bin or not), we have
to debate how to handle people having multiple versions of python on
their machine. In a post-PEP 397 world, no Python is the machine
default - .py files are associated
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 18:26, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Given the cost of the change, and the advent of the PEP-397 Launcher, I also
vote -1.
Can you provide some justification other than a number? It's a pretty
cheap change and the launcher solves somewhat of a different problem.
[snipped some CCs]
On 23/03/2012 2:20 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:
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I get that tools could be affected. I had two IDE makers at PyCon
immediately throw up red flags to this change. I think one of them was
about to charge the stage during my talk. When it was mentioned that
we could point them to
