Re: [PyX-devel] Re: Bug in Windows installer

[pieter c. <pi...@pi...>]

Hello Andre,

I am not on the mailing list so you might have to forward this on.

Both pyx.def and 10pt.lfs are located in c:\python24\share\pyx

I would keep things out of c:\windows because that is cruising for a
bruising. Only Bill and friends are supposed to write there and anyhow,
permissions might be a problem on some machines (local policy).

There is a registery setting
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProgramFilesDir
which specifies where program files are installed. That is probably a more
reasonable place to installed stuff if not under the python24 dir.

Don't know the python installer well enough to know if it can check the
install platform before doing its thing.

If there is a hook, then here is a link for registery query from within
python.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/146305

I would suggest if some stuff is moved to c:\{program files}\python24 then
everything must be moved there. That sounds like an installer change to
me?

Cheers,
Pieter


> Hi,
>
> On 05.01.05, Joerg Lehmann wrote:
>> Probably, we have to check
>> for the platform in the setup.py file.
>
> It seems so. Yes.
>
>> But before, we have to find
>> a sensible place for the pyxrc file under Windows. Any ideas?
>
> c:\windows ... ;-)
>
> Well, I have no idea. I think the generic place would be somewhere in
> the registry. Not everything is a file, at least not under windows.
> ;-(
>
> To make a serious suggestion: We might place it under "share/pyx" as
> well. But I don't know, where those things get installed in the end.
> Pieter, can you locate "pyx.def" and things like "10pt.lfs" on your
> maschine. Just to get an understanding myself, what I'm suggesting ...
>
>
> André
>
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