Forgot to cc: python-dev on my reply to Greg -----Original Message----- From: David Ascher [mailto:DavidA@ActiveState.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 6:23 PM To: Greg Stein Subject: RE: [Python-Dev] Windows installer pre-prelease

Valid point. But there are other solutions, too. VC distributes a thing named "VCVARS.BAT" to set up paths and other environ vars. Python could certainly do the same thing (to overcome the embedded-space issue).

I hate VCVARS -- it doesn't work from my Cygnus shell, it has to be invoked by the user as opposed to automatically started by the installer, etc.

Depends on the audience of that standard. Programmers: yah. Consumers? They just want the damn thing to work like they expect it to. That expectation is usually "I can find my programs in Program Files."

In my experience, the /Program Files location works fine for tools which have strictly GUI interfaces and which are launched by the Start menu or other GUI mechanisms. Anything which you might need to invoke at the command line lives best in a non-space-containing path, IMO of course. --david