Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'
Meredith Montgomery
mmontgomery at levado.to
Mon Oct 3 21:10:08 EDT 2022
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.
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