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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 23:07:06 CET 2012

On 20 March 2012 22:00, VanL <van.lindberg at gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/20/2012 4:49 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:

So I'm assuming that: * The executable (and DLL) are moved to a "bin" directory in an installed Python. * distutils etc will change to install all "scripts" (or executables generated from scripts) into that same directory.  IOW, "Scripts" would die.

It's worth remembering Éric's point - distutils is frozen and changes are in theory not allowed. This part of the proposal is not possible without an exception to that ruling. Personally, I don't see how making this change could be a problem, but I'm definitely not an expert.

If distutils doesn't change, bdist_wininst installers built using distutils rather than packaging will do the wrong thing with regard to this change. End users won't be able to tell how an installer has been built.

Paul.

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