[Python-Dev] Switching to VC.NET 2003 (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Mon Dec 29 11:38:33 EST 2003

[Martin v. Loewis]

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In the sample installer, I put python24.dll into TARGETDIR, not into System32Folder. I'd like to keep it that way, as Microsoft discourages deployment into system32. Of course, if there is a good reason to install python24.dll into system32, changing the installer generator to do so would be only a small effort.

We need to hear from Mark Hammond about this, but he's on vacation now. The current installer's "non-admin install" option leaves system folders alone, and works fine for everything I routinely do on Windows. The point to stuffing the Python DLL into a system directory had (IIRC) something to do with a Windows Service embedding a Python component via COM, in which case "the virtual command line" that started the service has no idea where Python might live on the box. Or something like that -- or something not like that at all. That's why we need Mark .

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