+ 0 for automatically adding to %PATH% + 1 for providing an option to the user during install
- John On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Andrew Pennebaker < andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please have the Windows installers add the Python installation directory to > the PATH environment variable. > > Many newbies dive in without knowing that they must manually add > C:\PythonXY to PATH. It's yak shaving, something perfectly automatable that > should have been done by the installers way back in Python 1.0. > > Please also add PYTHONROOT\Scripts. It's where cool things like > easy_install.exe are stored. More yak shaving. > > The only potential downside to this is upsetting users who manage multiple > python installations. It's not a problem: they already manually adjust PATH > to their liking. > > Cheers, > > Andrew Pennebaker > www.yellosoft.us > > _______________________________________________ > 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/tehjcon%40gmail.com > >
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