[Python-Dev] PEP 370, open questions

[Suraj Barkale]

Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Yes, this does contradict the Microsoft guideline that you shouldn't
> write to USERPROFILE, but Microsoft themselves set HOMEDRIVE and
> HOMEPATH, so they vioated the guidelines, not us .
> 
> The point here is that we want "the user's home". This is clearly
> %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% on Windows, guidelines notwithstanding.
> 

To add another twist to this the HOMEDRIVE mapping is not guarantied at all on
windows startup (http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+homedrive+mapping). This
has caused a lot of pain for me in the past.

Can this be changed into using %APPDATA% by default and changing to
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% based on some MSI switch?

Regards,
Suraj