On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:58:06 -0400, "P.J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >>If you are saying that Python observes all microsofts >>recommendations under windows and is "well-behaved" I think >>I'd have some comments about that. >> >>"Well behaved" is installing a python program to "Program Files" >>but distutils doesn't allow this to my knowledge. > > It most certainly does; but not in a bdist_wininst or bdist_msi > (AFAIK), and definitely not by default. You'd need to specify the > location on the command line.
I don't know if you have checked lately but not many windows users these days even know what a command line even is. It's just plain unreasonable to expect windows users to resort to a command line in this day and age. > You are misrepresenting my statements. I have neither called it dead > nor .. Ok. Fine. But expecting windows users to remember commandlines *is* dead. And everything you wrote has confirmed that python package installation under windows *is* "not well behaved". Be it command-line installation, or bdist_wininst/bdist_msi not working properly. Anyway, windows is just an 'edge-use-case'. So lets not worry. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
