<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#000000">My only request for change would be to consolidate the various tools' behavior wrt their .ini file locations. Pip, for example, wants the file in ~/pip/pip.ini, while py.exe (on Windows) wants its py.ini in $LOCALAPPDATA. If they were all in a common location (or the same file with separate sections), that would make life a tiny bit easier.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#000000">Eric</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Paul Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com" target="_blank">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm reluctant to expand the feature set of the launcher in this<br>
direction. It's written in C, and tightly focused on being a<br>
lightweight launcher. Adding code to manage user options and persist<br>
them to the py.ini file would be a non-trivial overhead, as well as<br>
being hard to maintain (because C code and text handling :-)) It's not<br>
that hard to manage an ini file, and if anyone wants a friendlier<br>
interface, writing such a thing in Python as a standalone utility<br>
would be easy, and far more robust, flexible and maintainable than<br>
adding it to the launcher directly (you could even add a GUI if you<br>
like ;-)).<br>
<br>
Conceded, I'm saying this from the perspective of writing and<br>
maintaining the code, and not from the UX/UI perspective. If someone<br>
wants to add this feature to the launcher, I don't mind, but<br>
*personally* I don't think it's worth it.<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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On 6 February 2018 at 10:10, Alex Walters <<a href="mailto:tritium-list@sdamon.com">tritium-list@sdamon.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I actually like the idea of being able to modify the py.ini file to set the<br>
> default from py.exe. That seams like the most intuitive thing to me.<br>
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>> Maybe the Windows installer should offer to set/change that, especially<br>
>> when installing a non-release version?<br>
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