Dino Viehland wrote:
Michael wrote:
I don't have an obvious solution (per user site-packages perhaps?) but
present the problem. Python circumvents this problem by *not* installing
into "Program Files".
I would actually say that CPython seems to circumvent this by allowing
users to write to its installation directory. Interestingly it does not
allow modifying the existing files (e.g. I can't modify site.py w/ out
elevating to admin, just as I can't create files at C:\ w/o elevating
to admin).
Ignoring for the moment that distutils doesn't work yet, it seems to me
to be a "bug" (or at the very least a problem) that a normal user can't
install packages into their standard installation.
If Python libraries write or modify files in their package directory
then elevating on install wouldn't be enough - elevation would be
required to use them. I don't have any metrics on how common that is,
but my guess would be "not uncommon".
Does IronPython implement PEP 370?
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/
Michael
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