[Distutils] How to handle launcher script importability?

PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Aug 12 22:26:31 CEST 2013


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would still like to see the standard be registered .pye (I'm happy with a
> bikeshed of this colour) and .pwe extensions which are added to PATHEXT and

As long as we're discussing bikeshed colors, I'd like to
counterpropose .pya and .pwa, to be registered in the Windows class
registry as Python Console Application and Python Windowed
Application, respectively.

Since the *only* reason we need these extensions is for Windows (other
OSes do fine at making things executable without an extension), and
Windows calls things like these "Applications" or "Apps" in Explorer
normally, I think it's better to call them what Windows calls them.


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