Re: Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-04 Thread Greg Ewing
On 4/10/22 10:49 pm, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote: (I could even move the file to another folder on the original Mac, but that didn't mean much, because those old file systems were entirely flat (directories and folders were an illusion maintained by the Finder) That was only true

Re: Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-04 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
On 2022-10-04 at 14:55:36 +1300, dn wrote: > On 04/10/2022 14.10, Meredith Montgomery wrote: > > r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > > > >> Meredith Montgomery writes: > >>> Wouldn't it be great if it were portable by default? > >> > >> I think under Windows there is a division of

Re: Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-03 Thread dn
On 04/10/2022 14.10, Meredith Montgomery wrote: > r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > >> Meredith Montgomery writes: >>> Wouldn't it be great if it were portable by default? >> >> I think under Windows there is a division of software >> suggested by Microsoft, a division of

Re: Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-03 Thread Meredith Montgomery
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Meredith Montgomery writes: >>Wouldn't it be great if it were portable by default? > > I think under Windows there is a division of software > suggested by Microsoft, a division of software into > executable code and data (data may change in

Re: Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-03 Thread Barry Scott
> On 1 Oct 2022, at 16:50, Gisle Vanem via Python-list > wrote: > > Hello list. > > I'm moved my old Python27 installation from > f:\ProgramFiler\Python27 ( == 'ProgramFiles') > to > f:\gv\Python27 The design of Windows installed software makes this hard to do without a lot of

Re: Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-03 Thread Meredith Montgomery
Gisle Vanem writes: > Hello list. > > I'm moved my old Python27 installation from > f:\ProgramFiler\Python27 ( == 'ProgramFiles') > to > f:\gv\Python27 > > and now many 'scripts/*.exe' program fails > to start since the old path to 'Python.exe' > is wrong. > > E.g. 'Scripts/pip2.exe' has

Re: Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-03 Thread dn
On 03/10/2022 20.48, Gisle Vanem via Python-list wrote: > dn wrote: > >>> E.g. 'Scripts/pip2.exe' has the path >>> "f:\programfiler\python27\python.exe" hard-coded >>> inside it. >>> >>> Is there a easy way to fix this w/o re-installing this >>> old Python? >> >> Yes, by putting a symbolic-link

Re: Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-03 Thread Gisle Vanem via Python-list
dn wrote: E.g. 'Scripts/pip2.exe' has the path "f:\programfiler\python27\python.exe" hard-coded inside it. Is there a easy way to fix this w/o re-installing this old Python? Yes, by putting a symbolic-link at the old 'programfiler' location which points to the new 'gv' installation. I'm

Re: Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-01 Thread dn
On 02/10/2022 04.50, Gisle Vanem via Python-list wrote: > Hello list. > > I'm moved my old Python27 installation from >   f:\ProgramFiler\Python27  ( == 'ProgramFiles') > to >   f:\gv\Python27 > > and now many 'scripts/*.exe' program fails > to start since the old path to 'Python.exe' > is

Changing 'Scripts/*.exe'

2022-10-01 Thread Gisle Vanem via Python-list
Hello list. I'm moved my old Python27 installation from f:\ProgramFiler\Python27 ( == 'ProgramFiles') to f:\gv\Python27 and now many 'scripts/*.exe' program fails to start since the old path to 'Python.exe' is wrong. E.g. 'Scripts/pip2.exe' has the path