Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-30 Thread Paul Moore
On 30 July 2013 18:24, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > Personally, I don't know how to do this so someone else would have to - > > It seems that this was settled as fine as-is; if you ever wanted to > allow this to be specifically enabled, you'd have to do three things > Thanks, Martin - MSI is a m

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 28.07.13 00:36, schrieb Paul Moore: > On 27 July 2013 21:14, Steve Dower > wrote: > > Any chance of this being made optional when installing? It provides > no benefit for people who prefer to associate scripts with an editor > and may be a source o

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-28 Thread Steve Dower
f.mo...@gmail.com> Sent: ‎7/‎28/‎2013 1:00 To: Steve Dower<mailto:steve.do...@microsoft.com> Cc: Martin v. Löwis<mailto:mar...@v.loewis.de>; Python Dev<mailto:python-dev@python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows On 28 July 2013 00:30, S

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 28 July 2013 08:36, Paul Moore wrote: > The PEP for pyz and pwz hasn't been accepted yet. If it does, then yes pyz > should be treated the same way (and we can have the same debate about pwz as > we do about pyw :-)) Oops, thanks for the reminder. I'll nudge Daniel about that :) Cheers, Nick.

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-28 Thread Paul Moore
On 28 July 2013 00:30, Steve Dower wrote: > > And if you change the association after the fact, you're presumably just > as capable > > of changing PATHEXT. > > Not if the association is changed by another installer (presumably with > the user's explicit permission). It would be very easy for peo

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-28 Thread Paul Moore
On 28 July 2013 00:30, Steve Dower wrote: > Another issue to consider is that the modification to PATHEXT can't be > undone when Python is uninstalled, unless each installation adds another > ".PY" and each uninstall removes only one (so my PATHEXT would look like > ...;.PY;.PY;.PY;.PY;.PY;.PY;.P

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-27 Thread Steve Dower
From: Paul Moore > I'm a bit confused by your comment about "people who prefer to associate > scripts > with an editor", though. This is only done in precisely those situations when > the installer associates .py scripts with py.exe (the launcher). So if you > switch that off, you don't get PATHE

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-27 Thread Paul Moore
On 27 July 2013 21:14, Steve Dower wrote: > Any chance of this being made optional when installing? It provides no > benefit for people who prefer to associate scripts with an editor and may > be a source of confusion/complaints. > Personally, I don't know how to do this so someone else would h

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-27 Thread Steve Dower
..@v.loewis.de> Cc: Python Dev<mailto:python-dev@python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows On 23 July 2013 17:33, Paul Moore mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 23 July 2013 17:11, "Martin v. Löwis" mailto:mar...@v.loewis.de&g

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-27 Thread Paul Moore
On 23 July 2013 17:33, Paul Moore wrote: > On 23 July 2013 17:11, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > >> Am 15.07.13 10:26, schrieb Paul Moore: >> > Does anyone have any objections to this? I could try to write a patch, >> > but I know next to nothing about building MSIs, so if any of the >> > installer

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-23 Thread Paul Moore
On 23 July 2013 17:11, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Am 15.07.13 10:26, schrieb Paul Moore: > > Does anyone have any objections to this? I could try to write a patch, > > but I know next to nothing about building MSIs, so if any of the > > installer experts could help that would be fantastic. > > It

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 15.07.13 10:26, schrieb Paul Moore: > Does anyone have any objections to this? I could try to write a patch, > but I know next to nothing about building MSIs, so if any of the > installer experts could help that would be fantastic. It's fine with me. I could write the patch, but will likely for

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 15 July 2013 18:42, Paul Moore wrote: > On 15 July 2013 09:40, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> Sounds good to me - in the long run it may allow us to drop the Windows >> exe wrappers when installing scripts on Windows. > > > That's my motivation. In particular removing pip's exe wrappers to ease som

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-15 Thread Paul Moore
On 15 July 2013 09:40, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Sounds good to me - in the long run it may allow us to drop the Windows > exe wrappers when installing scripts on Windows. That's my motivation. In particular removing pip's exe wrappers to ease some of the issues being flagged on distutils-sig. Paul

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-15 Thread Gerald Klix
+1 BTW: I use lots of "*.py-executables" on Linux and OSX, so different extension don't bother me. Gerald Am 15.07.2013 um 10:26 schrieb Paul Moore : > With the addition of the Python launcher (PEP 397), Python scripts on > Windows are executable in much the same way as on Unix. However, "out

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

2013-07-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
Sounds good to me - in the long run it may allow us to drop the Windows exe wrappers when installing scripts on Windows. Cheers, Nick. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http