[issue21506] Windows MSI installer should mklink (symlink) python.exe to python2.7.exe

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

As far as Python 2.7 is concerned, I will be avoiding making any changes to the installer at all.

For Python 3.5 I'm trying to work out a few of the install issues, one of them being not installing into Program Files. I think symlinks may be the way to make that change work, in which case it will be trivial to add two more. That said, I prefer the py.exe launcher anyway (especially since it handles 32/64-bit slightly better than this would), mostly since I intensely dislike permanently modifying PATH for anybody :)

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