A better course of action would be to deprecate the non-portable
version. Other than setting the PATH envvar, why do we need to continue
even touching the system on install? It is highly annoying for those of
us that maintain several installs of python on a single windows system,
and it really should stop.
The only use I can think of for ever touching the registry in the first
place is to tell distutils installers where python is. I can tell you
right now, that design choice is a bug. There are some mighty hacks you
have to go through to correct that behavior when you happen to be using
a virtualenv.
(We are calling it 'embedable', but the rest of the world would call it
'portable', as in, runable from a usb stick)
On 5/31/2015 06:47, Paul Moore wrote:
On 31 May 2015 at 11:41, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 31 May 2015 at 10:14, Xavier Combelle <xavier.combe...@gmail.com> wrote:
+1. The new embeddable Python distribution for Windows is a great step
forward for this. It's not single-file, but it's easy to produce a
single-directory self-contained application with it. I don't know if
there's anything equivalent for Linux/OSX - maybe it's something we
should look at for them as well (although the whole "static binaries"
concept seems to be fairly frowned on in the Unix world, from what
I've seen).
Just curious What is "the new embeddable Python distribution for Windows" ?
Python 3.5 ships a zipfile which contains a self-contained Python
installation, intended for embedding. The idea is that you unzip it
into your application directory, and use it from within your
application (either via the embedding API, or using the included
python.exe/pythonw.exe). It doesn't use the registry, or any global
resources, so it's independent of any installed python that might be
present.
By the way, IMO the new embeddable distribution is a pretty big deal
on Windows. To make sure that it doesn't end up unnoticed, can I
suggest we include a prominent "What's New" entry for it, and a
section in "Python Setup and Usage" under "Using Python on Windows"
for it?
I'd hate to find that 3 or 4 versions from now, we're still trying to
remind people that they can use the embeddable distribution, in the
same way that executable zipfiles ended up an almost unknown feature
for ages.
Paul
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