Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

[Meredith Montgomery]

ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery at levado.to> writes:
>>Wouldn't it be great if it were portable by default?
>
>   I think under Windows there is a division of software
>   suggested by Microsoft, a division of software into
>   executable code and data (data may change in time).
>
>   The executable code is supposed to rest under
>   "C:\Program Files" the contents of which cannot be
>   modified by user processes easily. Program configuration
>   can be stored below "AppData" in the user directory.
>   It is supposed to be more secure when executable code
>   cannot be modified easily by user processes.
>
>   So far, Python has decided to ignore this and install
>   everything under AppData as I understand it. So one 
>   gets neither the security of "Program Files" nor the
>   possibility to move it to another directory easily.

Interesting.  I like portable things.  You copy from one place to
another and it just runs.  As it should.  Things should be simple.