On 2 April 2013 01:47, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > This PEP proposes to fix these problems by re-publicising the feature, > defining the .pyz and .pyzw extensions as “Python ZIP Applications” > and “Windowed Python ZIP Applications”, and providing some simple > tooling to manage the format. >
There is a bug in Windows Powershell, which is apparently due to a bug in the underlying FindExecutable API, that can fail to recognise extensions which are longer than 3 characters properly. Rather than risk obscure bugs, I would suggest restricting the extensions to 3 characters. For the “Windowed Python ZIP Applications” case, could we use .pzw as the extension instead of .pyzw? Please don't shoot the messenger here - I'm not going to try to defend such a stupid Windows bug, but better to be safe in my view. Flames about Windows to /dev/null... Paul.
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