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Re: Why does Python never add itself to the Windows path?
by Ben Sizer other posts by this author
Jan 3 2007 9:20AM messages near this date
Re: Why does Python never add itself to the Windows path? | Re: Why does Python never add itself to the Windows path?
Martin v. L�wis wrote:

>  Ben Sizer schrieb:
>  > Firstly, that solution only works for actual Python scripts; it doesn't
>  > solve the utility scripts that are often installed to the /scripts
>  > directory.
> 
>  Those packages should install .bat files into /scripts on Windows.

Which still need their location to be be fully qualified, due to
/scripts not being in the path. This is not my experience with Linux
installations of the same packages.

>  Please submit a patch that does so, then. Make sure you add user
>  interface to make it an option.
> 
>  These things are *not* easy, and claiming that they are is
>  misleading.

I will look into it.

-- 
Ben Sizer
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