On 12/12/2012 7:27 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:10 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
On 2012-12-12 23:33, Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
As a Windows user, I would like there to be one tz data file used by all
Python versions on my machine, including ones included with other apps.
That would be nice, but where would that be installed? There is no
standard location for zoneinfo files. And do we really want to install
python-specific files outside the Python tree?
There is no 'Python tree' on windows. Rather, there is a separate tree
for each version, located where the user directs.
Windows used to have a %APPDATA% directory variable. Not sure about Win
7, let alone 8. Martin and others should know better.
Or ask the user where to put it. I know where I would choose, and it
would not be on my C drive. Un-installers would not delete (unless a
reference count were kept and were decremented to 0).
Python version x.y is installed into, say, C:\Pythonxy, so perhaps a
good place would be, say, C:\Python.
C:\ProgramData\Python
Making a new top-level directory without asking is obnoxious.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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