Mark Hammond <mhammond <at> skippinet.com.au> writes: > > I mean that many Windows use the PATH, and as such, may fail if a new > directory is added to the PATH that contains a DLL they indirectly use.
Then it's just a matter of not putting any DLLs in those directories, isn't it? > If I *did* expect other programs to be able to find a > 'python.exe', I'm not sure I'd want to risk that installing a later version > of Python will change what Python is found. Most Linux distributions solve that by installing binaries named /usr/bin/python2.4, /usr/bin/python2.5, etc., and making /usr/bin/python a symlink to one of those. Thus if a program relies on particular Python version, it can just use a specific executable rather than a generic one. _______________________________________________ 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
