Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 514: Python environment registration in the Windows Registry

2016-03-01 Thread Steve Dower
On 01Mar2016 1137, David Cournapeau wrote: If you want to patch your own distribution to move the paths you are welcome to do that - there is only one string literal in getpathp.c that needs to be updated - but it's not a requirement and I deliberately avoided making a

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 514: Python environment registration in the Windows Registry

2016-03-01 Thread David Cournapeau
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Steve Dower wrote: > On 01Mar2016 0524, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On 1 March 2016 at 11:37, David Cournapeau wrote: >> >>> I am not clear about 3., especially on what should be changed. I know >>> that >>> for 2.7, we need

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 514: Python environment registration in the Windows Registry

2016-03-01 Thread Steve Dower
On 01Mar2016 0524, Paul Moore wrote: On 1 March 2016 at 11:37, David Cournapeau wrote: I am not clear about 3., especially on what should be changed. I know that for 2.7, we need to change PC\getpathp.c for sys.path, but are there any other places where the registry is used

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 514: Python environment registration in the Windows Registry

2016-03-01 Thread Paul Moore
On 1 March 2016 at 11:37, David Cournapeau wrote: > I am not clear about 3., especially on what should be changed. I know that > for 2.7, we need to change PC\getpathp.c for sys.path, but are there any > other places where the registry is used by python itself ? My

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 514: Python environment registration in the Windows Registry

2016-03-01 Thread David Cournapeau
Hi Steve, I have looked into this PEP to see what we need to do on Enthought side of things. I have a few questions: 1. Is it recommended to follow this for any python version we may provide, or just new versions (3.6 and above). Most of our customers still heavily use 2.7, and I wonder whether