> Assume, for the sake of the argument, that we patched the > MSI so it (optionally) added the installing version of Python > (and, optionally ./scripts) to the PATH. What, then, do we > do with existing PATH entries which point to older/other Python > installations? Option (a) says: clear them > all out, because it's meaningless having more than one entry > with a python.exe on it and the one we want must be this one > because we've just ticked a box to say so. Option (b) says: > don't mess with other entries on the PATH; it's not done.
That, too. For the registry settings, overwriting them is an easy choice: it was the other installer that wrote the original entries (*very* likely so), so we "own" them and we can overwrite them. Running a repair installation on the original installer will revert that. With the PATH entry, it's not such an easy choice: the old entry may have been manually added, or it may have been added by the previous installer. Replacing it in the second case is again a straight-forward choice, but we don't know (unless we record somewhere - in the registry - that we added a PATH entry - perhaps an MSI Feature entry could tell us). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
