[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Zachary Ware added the comment: New changeset 7c8d1f0238842fb8da099e797eea5973b66638a9 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9': bpo-29844: Remove obsolete paragraph from Tools/msi/README.txt (GH-29141) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7c8d1f0238842fb8da099e797eea5973b66638a9

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Zachary Ware added the comment: New changeset a8912a0f8d9eba6d502c37d51f9933e976db by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.10': bpo-29844: Remove obsolete paragraph from Tools/msi/README.txt (GH-29141) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a8912a0f8d9eba6d502c37d51f9933e976db

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Zachary Ware added the comment: With the readme updated (and backports in progress), I'm closing the issue. -- nosy: -miss-islington resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> needs patch status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.11 -Python 3.8

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +29142 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30963 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Change by miss-islington : -- nosy: +miss-islington nosy_count: 8.0 -> 9.0 pull_requests: +29141 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30962 ___ Python tracker

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Zachary Ware added the comment: New changeset 098a33f6a60ca2df88e03024ac9d8da507cfa5c8 by Zachary Ware in branch 'main': bpo-29844: Remove obsolete paragraph from Tools/msi/README.txt (GH-29141) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/098a33f6a60ca2df88e03024ac9d8da507cfa5c8 --

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Change by Zachary Ware : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +27417 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29141 ___ Python tracker

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Eryk Sun added the comment: "Tools/msi/README.txt" still references "%SystemRoot%\System32" and "%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64" as the location of "python3[x].dll" for all-users installs. The containing paragraph can be removed. Move the lines for ".\python3x.dll" and ".\python3.dll"

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Eryk Sun added the comment: > It's inconsistent with the Linux experience of an all-users > installation Yes, if you build with --enable-shared on Linux, then the shared libraries libpython3.X.so.1.0 and libpython3.so are installed in /usr/local/lib. Currently there's no direct equivalent

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Decorater added the comment: tbh, I would rather have it default for all python files installed for all users to go in ``%SystemDrive%\Python{major}{minor}`` on windows and then work with then the environment variables like currently so that way none of the python dll's are outside of such

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Steve Dower added the comment: Maybe I need to look through the history to see whether I actually intended the all-users install to be in System, but I don't think I did (despite writing the documentation linked - it may have been adapted from the old documentation). Applications that need

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Paul "TBBle" Hampson added the comment: If this is just a documentation fix, then there's two places that need it: * https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Tools/msi/README.txt contains the text I quoted in the original report. * Some kind of release note

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Steve Dower added the comment: I don't even think there's documentation to fix, the install page should say where things are installed. The system directory is for the system to install files - the Python installer is not a system component, it's a developer kit. For most cases, the install

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Eryk Sun added the comment: 3.5+ doesn't install files to system directories -- except the py launcher in %SystemRoot%. This was an intentional change, so I'm flagging this as a documentation issue. -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation, Windows keywords: +easy nosy:

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

Changes by Paul "TBBle" Hampson : -- components: +Installation type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29844] Windows Python installers not installing DLL to System32/SysWOW64

New submission from Paul "TBBle" Hampson: As noted in https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/master/Tools/msi === When installed for all users, the following files are installed to either "%SystemRoot%\System32" or "%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64" as appropriate. For the current user, they are installed