Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Apr 28 20:23:12 CEST 2014

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:52:48 +1200
Mike Miller <python-dev at mgmiller.net> wrote:
> 
> I thought this might be a good time to make a final plea to fix a
> long-standing security issue in the installer on Windows.  By default it
> installs Python to the root folder, thereby bypassing filesystem permissions:
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1284316

Regardless of whether this change this or not, we certainly cannot
change it in a bugfix version. So, 3.5 at the earliest it would be.

Regards

Antoine.

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