[Python-Dev] 3.5 release schedule PEP (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Sep 24 14:34:25 CEST 2014

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:12:35 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 24 Sep 2014 15:15, "Tim Golden" <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > > On 23/09/2014 18:05, Steve Dower wrote: >> >> I'm also considering/experimenting with installing into "Program >> Files" by default, but I suspect that isn't going to work out yet. > > > I'd like to see that go forward: I think it's increasingly difficult to justify Python's position at c:\pythonxx. But it does run the risk of > breaking All The Things. When it was discussed, people spoke about > symlinks (or hardlinks / junctions / whatever) in the appropriate > places to support hardcoded paths, but I don't know how feasible > that will turn out to be.

It might be better to offer that as a supported option in 3.5, and then make it the default in 3.6.

I would be surprised if this weren't already a supported option. Decent Windows installers generally allow you to override the installation path (it's been a while I haven't used the Windows Python installer, sorry).

I think making the move in 3.5 would be a good idea. Experts can override the installation path and choose C:\PythonXY. There's no actual breakage since the path changes for every major release, anyway (i.e. people would have had to change the path from "C:\Python34" to "C:\Python35"; instead, they will have to change it to "C:\Program Files\Python35").

Regards

Antoine.

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