[Python-Dev] Windows installer pre-prelease

[Fredrik Lundh]

Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> wrote:
> > All worked without incident for me under Win95.  Nice!  Would still =
prefer
> > that it install to D:\Python-1.6\ by default, though (instead of =
burying it
> > under "Program Files" -- if you're not on the Help list, you can't =
believe
> > how hard it is to explain how to deal with embedded spaces in =
paths).
>=20
> Ack! No way... Keep my top-level clean! :-)
>=20
> This is Windows. Apps go into Program Files. That is Just The Way It =
Is. =20

if you're on a US windows box, sure.  but "Program Files"
isn't exactly an international standard...

we install our python distribution under the \py<version>,
and we get lot of positive responses.  as far as I remember,
nobody has ever reported problems setting up the path...

> When was the last time you saw /python on a Unix box? Never? Always in
> .../bin/? Thought so.

if the Unix designers had come up with the bright idea of
translating "bin" to "whatever might seem to make sense
in this language", I think you'd see many more non-std in-
stallations under Unix...  especially if they'd made the root
directory writable to everyone :-)

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