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On 11 Feb 2015 03:47, "Steve Dower" <<a href="mailto:Steve.Dower@microsoft.com">Steve.Dower@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> This is yet another attempt to try and change user behaviour, which I'm not thrilled about, but I'm really starting to feel that this is the best way out of a bad situation. It differs from the solutions used on Linux, though there may be some value in this approach there too. Thought/votes/suggestions?</p>
<p dir="ltr">I don't think we have this problem solved on Linux either, we just have a variety of workarounds in place of varying degrees of clunkiness :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">The thing I find attractive about this specific proposal is that we could potentially expand it to Linux as well through appropriate use of environment modules, and I expect that would also cover other POSIX systems.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So if you wanted to draft up an initial PEP with a concrete proposal covering Windows systems, I'd be happy to tackle the task of getting the same design to work on Linux (and hopefully POSIX in general) using environment modules.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Nick.</p>
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> Cheers,<br>
> Steve<br>
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> [1]: Actually multiple scripts to handle cmd.exe/PowerShell, but this is an implementation detail. Users would simply type `activate-py` and the shells know which one to use.<br>
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> [2]: We can easily add Start Menu shortcuts (e.g. "Python 3.5 (32-bit) Command Prompt") and run it for them, though that is not a critical part of this proposal.<br>
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