On 13 January 2015 at 06:02, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> For the time being, things like PyInstaller, PyRun, Portable Python, >>> etc are going to offer a better solution than anything we provide in >>> the standard installers. >> >> See also Anaconda and Enthought Canopy. I think miniconda, for instance, may >> give you just what you need, if you don't want to go the py2exe/PyInstaller >> approach (though you probably do want to go that way, as far as I can tell >> from >> your description of your use-case. > > Actually, both Anaconda and Canopy suffer from the initialization process > issues. You can't really use virtualenv with either of them unless they set > the registry PythonPath value (since they won't find the libraries they need > to launch), and if you install both then they'll fight over the registry key > and you'll get Canopy launching with Anaconda's path or vice-versa. > >> I'm inclined to think that this does not belong as part of the standard >> installer. > > The problems are inherent to the standard python.exe, and are likely part of > the standard pythonXY.dll. Nick's scared of fixing it, so I'm absolutely > petrified :)
Technically, I'm not scared of fixing it per se, I'm just wary of trying to fix it without first refactoring it and writing some more tests :) Finding the roundtuits for PEP 432 is an eternal struggle though - so many things end up edging ahead of it on the personal priority list :( Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
