On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:18, Andrew Pennebaker <
andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, there's no need to "buy in" to the Windows toolchain just to edit
> PATH. Installer software includes functionality for editing environment
> variables, and in any case Python has built in environment va
I mentioned PYTHONROOT\Script because of the distribute package, which adds
PYTHONROOT\Script\easy_install.exe.
My mistake if \Script is created by distribute and not Python. Then my beef
is with distribute for not adding its binaries to PATH--how else would I use
easy_setup if not in a terminal?
I see that the Ruby 1.9 stable Windows installer has a checkbox to add the
Ruby binaries to PATH. That would be excellent for Python.
Also, there's no need to "buy in" to the Windows toolchain just to edit
PATH. Installer software includes functionality for editing environment
variables, and in an
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 23:04, Andrew Pennebaker <
andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please have the Windows installers add the Python installation directory to
> the PATH environment variable.
The http://bugs.python.org bug tracker is a better place for feature
requests like this, of which
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:52:07 +1000
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Windows is a developer hostile platform unless you completely buy into
> the Microsoft toolchain, which is not an option for cross-platform
> projects like Python.
We already buy into the MS toolchain since we require Visual Studio (or
at l
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Andrew Pennebaker
wrote:
> Please have the Windows installers add the Python installation directory to
> the PATH environment variable.
Please read PEP 397: Python Launcher for Windows.
Or at least do us the courtesy of acknowledging that if the issue was
as simp
+ 0 for automatically adding to %PATH%
+ 1 for providing an option to the user during install
- John
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <
andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please have the Windows installers add the Python installation directory to
> the PATH environment var
Please have the Windows installers add the Python installation directory to
the PATH environment variable.
Many newbies dive in without knowing that they must manually add C:\PythonXY
to PATH. It's yak shaving, something perfectly automatable that should have
been done by the installers way back i
