repair modify uninstall
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Jun 11 08:06:47 EDT 2020
On 6/10/2020 11:30 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-06-11, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Since this comes up on a weekly basis, perhaps the installer should open
>> that web page to section 3.8.1 after a successful installation. Maybe
>> users would read that short section and not try to run the installer
>> over and over again. Or since that can be annoying, a prominent "how to
>> get started" link to click on. I dunno.
>
> Suggestions like this also get made regularly. I'm baffled why the
> Python installer doesn't display an initial screen that says something
> like.
>
> This is the Python INSTALLER. If you have installed Python,
> here's what you do to run it:
>
> <I don't know what goes here since I don't use Windows>
>
> Click the buttons below only if you want to INSTALL, UNINSTALL,
> or REPAIR Python. See the above instruction to use/run Python.
>
>> I'm not sure why users think the installer is the python interpreter
>> after running it the first time, but apparently many do.
>
> Indeed. Is the file name not clear that it's an installer?
No. python-3.8.3-amd64.exe, which is typical naming for install files.
I opened
https://bugs.python.org/issue40948
and suggested adding '-setup' or '-install', as well as instructions on
the initial screen for existing installs, and, if not present, the final
screen for new installs.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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