[Python-Dev] Python install layout and the PATH on win32 (original) (raw)

VanL van.lindberg at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 20:02:02 CET 2012

On 3/20/2012 1:50 PM, Merlijn van Deen wrote:

On 13 March 2012 20:43, VanL<van.lindberg at gmail.com> wrote:

Following up on conversations at PyCon, I want to bring up one of my personal hobby horses for change in 3.3: Fix install layout on Windows, with a side order of making the PATH work better. As this is being considered an 'incompatible change' on the bug tracker item [1] in any case, I'd like to mention that this might also be a convenient moment to re-think the default install location. After all, software is supposed to be installed in %programfiles% on windows, not in c:<program name>.

I don't particularly care about this issue, as I always install to my own location (c:\lib\python\X.Y), but I don't think that the default location of the install should be confounded with this issue - or should I say these issues, because we already have two.

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