Paul Moore wrote: [...] > No matter how you cut it, Windows isn't designed for per-user > installable programs. Maybe a per-user site-packages just isn't > appropriate on Windows. > This reminds me of the early days of Microsoft Terminal Service (read: "X Window done wrong fifteen years later"), when various applications had to be modified to stop saving per-user data in global locations. It underlines the fact that essentially Windows is still betrayed by its original conception as a single-user system.
The idea that users would /program their own computers/ was totally alien to the Windows mindset. looking-at-Vista-and-thinking-very-hard-ly y'rs - steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
