[Python-Dev] Why does the Windows installer use the shortname formof the install directory? (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:31:36 -0400

[Moore, Paul]

... That's fair enough. And it's not major enough that I'm pushing for anyone to waste time on it. I just thought I'd mention it in case it was a simple change to a checkbox, or something.

It almost is a checkbox! In WISE's idea of "a scripting language", the relevant line looks like this:

Set Variable MAINDIR to %MAINDIR%

There's not a visible clue that this isn't a no-op. If you double-click on the line in the WISE GUI, though, a dialog box pops up, with a dropdown list labeled "Operation", one of whose entries is

Convert to short filename

There isn't another variant that adds "but only if it contains a space".

Beyond that, I'm stuck -- since Adobe graciously updated my Acrobat Reader, every attempt to view the WISE reference docs (pdf format) hard-freezes (power cycle required) my box. I like your suggestion to skip this unless there's an embedded space, I just seem unable to do anything about it now (but it would still be for 2.3 -- mucking with 2.2 is too dangerous).