On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 1:58 PM Brendan Barnwell <brenb...@brenbarn.net> wrote:
> On 2019-07-09 23:23, Alex Walters wrote: > > I have made this suggestion in the past. The response then was that > there > > is no metadata in the windows install that includes if the release is > > development or stable (that information is not stored in the registry). > I > > was advised to adjust my configuration of the py.exe launcher to set a > > different default version. > > > > I think that's a reasonable stance to take with development versions - > they > > are intended for testing in specialist situations, so you can expect the > > users to take the extra steps to make sure using them doesn't blow up > their > > world. > > > > It still would be nice if the registry details of the install had a bool > > "stable" field that py.exe could poll. I can't imagine it adds a lot to > the > > release process, or adds significant complexity to the launcher, and that > > negates the need to update the launcher regularly. > > I agree that it seems the real problem here is the lack of a real > way > to determine if an available version is a real release or a > prerelease/beta. Is it not possible to change that, so that it is > possible for the launcher to quickly and easily determine the highest > release version available? > That's the question people are trying to figure out.
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