> Le 16 mars 2018 à 17:05, Ben Coman <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 March 2018 at 22:23, Peter Uhnák <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > For now, if you are admin, you could install PharoLauncher under « Program 
> > Files » but then, you also need to be admin to run it. If you are not 
> > admin, you should install PharoLauncher elsewhere.
> 
> As I see this recommendation for the Nth time, maybe it is time the default 
> location to C:\Pharo (or C:\PharoLauncher) ... 
> 
> other languages don't seem to have any problem with that whatsoever (I see in 
> my dir C:\Python27, C:\Ruby24-x64, cygwin, msys, mingw, ...)
> 
> If the installer cannot escalate on its own, it shouldn't try in the first 
> place. Otherwise it's just bad experience in literally the first step people 
> will take with Pharo.
> 
> Interestingly Python 3 has installed itself in 
> %APPDATA%\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32 ... so maybe that's also a 
> location to consider which doesn't require admin rights.
> 
> Peter
> 
> I think Python 3 has it right.  Its also where GitForWindows installs itself.
> 
> Alternatively the parent %APPDATA%\Local\    
> (equivalently %LOCALAPPDATA% which can be typed into Windows Explorer)
> is where many apps seem to put their main executable.
> On my system I discover...
> %LOCALAPPDATA% \ Discord \ app-0.0.298 \ Discord.exe
> %LOCALAPPDATA% \ Atom \ atom.exe
> %LOCALAPPDATA% \ GitHubDesktop \ GitHubDesktop.exe 
> %LOCALAPPDATA% \ slack \ slack.exe
> %LOCALAPPDATA% \ Roblox \ Versions \ RobloxStudioLauncherBeta.exe

Very good idea. I updated Pharo Launcher to use LOCALAPPDATA.
Thanks Ben

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