On 9 March 2015 at 15:37, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Maybe the answer is that we simply start recommending that everyone on
>> Windows
>> uses per-user installs. It makes little difference to me (beyond the fact
>> that
>> when I want to look at the source of something in the stdlib, the location of
>> the file is a lot harder to remember than C:\Apps\Python34\Lib\whatever.py)
>> but
>> I doubt it's what most people will expect.
>
> I'm okay with this. Installing for all users is really something that could
> be considered an advanced option rather than the default, especially since
> the aim (AIUI) of the all-users install is to pretend that Python was shipped
> with the OS. (I'd kind of like to take that further by splitting things more
> sensibly between Program Files, Common Files and System32, but there's very
> little gain from that and much MUCH pain as long as people are still
> expecting C:\PythonXY installs...)
I've just tried a per-user install of Python 3.5a2. The machine in
question previously had (and still has) a system install of 3.4, with
"Make this Python the default" selected (so the .py extension is
associated with that version and specifically the 3.4 launcher).
I didn't get the option to associate .py files with 3.5 (there's *no
way* I'd consider that to be advanced usage - if I'm installing
Python, why wouldn't I want to associate it with .py files [1]) and I
still seem to have .py associated with the 3.4 launcher, not the 3.5
one that's in my %APPDATA% folder.
>cmd /c assoc .py
.py=Python.File
>cmd /c ftype python.file
python.file="C:\WINDOWS\py.exe" "%1" %*
I'm happy if a per-user install of 3.5 makes a per-user filetype
association (assuming such a thing is possible, I've never tried it
before) but it's absolutely not OK if we're planning on recommending
an install type that doesn't create the right association.
Paul
[1] Given that I have 3.4 and am installing an experimental 3.5
version, it's not actually at all clear cut which version I want as my
default. In all honesty, I don't think this decision is actually
something that should be defaulted. Maybe the "don't make the user
make any choices in the default selection" approach has gone a little
too far here?
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