On 6 February 2011 15:35, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: >> On 06/02/2011 15:25, Brian Curtin wrote: >>> >>> So put the new path before the old path, or replace it? The current >>> patch appends to the end. >> >> I believe the last path wins in Windows land, so that would be fine. > > Not that I've ever experienced. Most installers just make sure to > insert entries at the beginning so "last installed" wins.
... and "at the beginning" can be a pain due to unintended overriding of existing user commands (not likely in the case of Python, where there's only python, pythonw, w9xpopen and various bdist_wininst "RemoveXXX" commands, but still possible). "Before any existing Python directories, otherwise at the end" is the closest to what I suspect most users want (certainly it matches my preferences, and anything else would have me manually editing PATH anyway, so is of no use to me in practice). Paul. _______________________________________________ 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
