[Python-Dev] Python for windows. (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Thu Nov 27 00:11:12 CET 2008

I can promise you Python on our system Python work perfectly.

I'm sure it does :) I'm more concerned about your apps not working when the user, or a "helpful" friend, uninstalls this Python thing that they don't use. I'm very interested to know why you don't see this as a significant problem with a relatively easy solution?

very often as our main scripting/programming tool like some other would use jscript or C#.

Yes, but apps written in jscript and C# tend not to rely on something external, out of their control, that the user may remove. Even for apps written in C which rely on the C runtime library, the advice is still to ship a private copy of that CRT. OTOH, I guess some .NET apps do fall into this category...

So out of the three issue:

- The three executable could be change to .dat ?

I think that should be quite easy to do - I'll volunteer for this one (but not for a few days)

- So if I understand well pythonicon.exe is only stocking all the icon for python ?

I'm not familiar with that.

- I just checked for the version number it is not required expect for the uninstalled key which is already clean.

So to be clear, you don't desire any changes here?

BTW - isn't there also a "\Program Files" requirement...?

Cheers,

Mark

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