> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Moore [mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 6:31 AM > To: Alex Walters <tritium-l...@sdamon.com> > Cc: Jan Claeys <li...@janc.be>; Python-Ideas <python-ideas@python.org> > Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] Possible Enhancement to py Launcher - set > default > > 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 ;-)). >
How would you feel about such a management script being shipped with python? > 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/
