[Python-Dev] pkgutil, pkg_resource and Python 3.0 name space packages
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Jan 10 00:52:58 CET 2008
Paul Moore wrote:
[...]
> No matter how you cut it, Windows isn't designed for per-user
> installable programs. Maybe a per-user site-packages just isn't
> appropriate on Windows.
>
This reminds me of the early days of Microsoft Terminal Service (read:
"X Window done wrong fifteen years later"), when various applications
had to be modified to stop saving per-user data in global locations. It
underlines the fact that essentially Windows is still betrayed by its
original conception as a single-user system.
The idea that users would /program their own computers/ was totally
alien to the Windows mindset.
looking-at-Vista-and-thinking-very-hard-ly y'rs - steve
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