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[Python-Dev] Python install layout and the PATH on win32

VanL van.lindberg at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 20:02:02 CET 2012 
On 3/20/2012 1:50 PM, Merlijn van Deen wrote:
> On 13 March 2012 20:43, VanL<van.lindberg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Following up on conversations at PyCon, I want to bring up one of my
>> personal hobby horses for change in 3.3: Fix install layout on Windows, with
>> a side order of making the PATH work better.
>
> As this is being considered an 'incompatible change' on the bug
> tracker item [1] in any case, I'd like to mention that this might also
> be a convenient moment to re-think the default install location. After
> all, software is supposed to be installed in %programfiles% on
> windows, not in c:\<program name>.

I don't particularly care about this issue, as I always install to my 
own location (c:\lib\python\X.Y), but I don't think that the default 
location of the install should be confounded with this issue - or should 
I say these issues, because we already have two.
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