[Python-ideas] Possible Enhancement to py Launcher - set default

[Eric Fahlgren]

My only request for change would be to consolidate the various tools'
behavior wrt their .ini file locations.  Pip, for example, wants the file
in ~/pip/pip.ini, while py.exe (on Windows) wants its py.ini in
$LOCALAPPDATA.  If they were all in a common location (or the same file
with separate sections), that would make life a tiny bit easier.

Eric

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm reluctant to expand the feature set of the launcher in this
> direction. It's written in C, and tightly focused on being a
> lightweight launcher. Adding code to manage user options and persist
> them to the py.ini file would be a non-trivial overhead, as well as
> being hard to maintain (because C code and text handling :-)) It's not
> that hard to manage an ini file, and if anyone wants a friendlier
> interface, writing such a thing in Python as a standalone utility
> would be easy, and far more robust, flexible and maintainable than
> adding it to the launcher directly (you could even add a GUI if you
> like ;-)).
>
> Conceded, I'm saying this from the perspective of writing and
> maintaining the code, and not from the UX/UI perspective. If someone
> wants to add this feature to the launcher, I don't mind, but
> *personally* I don't think it's worth it.
>
> Paul
>
> On 6 February 2018 at 10:10, Alex Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com> wrote:
> > I actually like the idea of being able to modify the py.ini file to set
> the
> > default from py.exe.  That seams like the most intuitive thing to me.
>
> >> From: Python-ideas [mailto:python-ideas-bounces+tritium-
> >>
> >> Maybe the Windows installer should offer to set/change that, especially
> >> when installing a non-release version?
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