My only request for change would be to consolidate the various tools' behavior wrt their .ini file locations. Pip, for example, wants the file in ~/pip/pip.ini, while py.exe (on Windows) wants its py.ini in $LOCALAPPDATA. If they were all in a common location (or the same file with separate sections), that would make life a tiny bit easier.
Eric On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm reluctant to expand the feature set of the launcher in this > direction. It's written in C, and tightly focused on being a > lightweight launcher. Adding code to manage user options and persist > them to the py.ini file would be a non-trivial overhead, as well as > being hard to maintain (because C code and text handling :-)) It's not > that hard to manage an ini file, and if anyone wants a friendlier > interface, writing such a thing in Python as a standalone utility > would be easy, and far more robust, flexible and maintainable than > adding it to the launcher directly (you could even add a GUI if you > like ;-)). > > Conceded, I'm saying this from the perspective of writing and > maintaining the code, and not from the UX/UI perspective. If someone > wants to add this feature to the launcher, I don't mind, but > *personally* I don't think it's worth it. > > Paul > > On 6 February 2018 at 10:10, Alex Walters <tritium-l...@sdamon.com> wrote: > > I actually like the idea of being able to modify the py.ini file to set > the > > default from py.exe. That seams like the most intuitive thing to me. > > >> From: Python-ideas [mailto:python-ideas-bounces+tritium- > >> > >> Maybe the Windows installer should offer to set/change that, especially > >> when installing a non-release version? > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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