[Python-Dev] PEP 397 (Python launcher for Windows) reference implementation

[Vinay Sajip]

Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond <at> gmail.com> writes:

> But this only happens when they install a later version, then uninstall 
> the later one and continue to use the old one.  I'd suggest that is (a) 
> rare and (b) possibly already broken (ie, the old association may not be 
> restored now).  If the old association currently is correctly restored, 
> then I'd expect things to just magically work in this new model without 
> any effort.

I've now checked, and it appears that we don't do the right thing now anyway.

On a clean Win7-x64, I installed Python 2.7 (32-bit), for all users, with
registration of extensions - and Python.File etc. were added to the registry
pointing at Python 2.7.

I then installed Python 3.2 the same way, and rhe registry entries then pointed
to 3.2.

I then uninstalled 3.2, and the registry entries were gone! No magical
restoration to the earlier values :-(

Okay - if users have to do this now anyway, we at least wouldn't be naking
things worse :-)

Regards,

Vinay Sajip