[Python-3000] Windows registry question from blog (original) (raw)

Trent Mick trentm at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 18:26:07 CEST 2007

> > Obviously then the logical choice would be to unselect that (or > > perhaps have it unselected by default for alpha installations). > > I'd rather have the user unselect it - people installing multiple > Python version are familiar with the phenomenon and might get puzzled > if some installation suddenly behaved different. >

If this were an actual certified "release" of Python, I'd agree with that. However, it's not - it's a specifically-incompatible alpha release, and I would vote for it being unselected by default. (People familiar with installing multiple Python versions will not be familiar with anything close to this level of incompatibility in their .py files).

FWIW, this is what I do for the ActivePython (and Komodo) installers: only do the PATHEXT, PATH and file association changes by default in final releases and require the user to select that for alpha/beta releases.

Trent

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