Re: [Distutils] More Windows questions

At 09:31 AM 10/4/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:

On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

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Okay, I've looked at the registry a bit, and it seems like I can register App Paths either under HKLM (for the whole machine) or under HKCU (for the current user). However, both seem to have issues. [...] 2. Register HKCU "App Paths" entries for all console scripts, pointing to a second '-conio-.exe' wrapper for the same '-script.py', thus allowing console scripts to be run from the "Start/Run" command line.

As I said in a previous email, keep away from App Paths, and in particular, don't register an executable under any name but its own.

There's very little documentation that I could find on what App Paths should do, so all you've got to go on is experiment and looking at what others do. No-one that I have seen ever registers an exe under a different name.

Actually, I've seen *two* on my own PC; one was a game, the other the Adobe SVG viewer.

And some programs (4NT, for example) expect the App Path name to match the exe name (and give a broken user experience if that isn't true).

Broken how?