Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> > Steve, assuming that I can access the Store, should I be able to install > > both PSF 3.7.2 and Windows Store 3.7.2 simultaneously? So I could test > > both IDLEs that beginners might install? > > Yes, absolutely. (To be clear, both are PSF approved and under the PSF > name/copyright/etc., so I've been calling them "traditional" and "Store" > installers when I talk about them.) I'd like to expand on this question a little. The first thing I'll note is that I'm not aware of any documentation on the Windows Store installer, and how it works. It's possible there's a docs patch in here somewhere, but to be honest, there are 8 PRs linked to this issue and I don't have the time to check them all right now. How will the Windows Store install work alongside the PSF one? Will it work the same, in that neither will go on PATH unless the user explicitly requests it? If I have PSF Python 3.7.1 and Store Python 3.7.2 simultaneously installed, which will py.exe -3.7 select? Can I influence it to choose the other one? Same question for 3rd party tools like "virtualenv -p 3.7" - I know it's not up to us to deal with virtualenv issues, but conversely I do think we have a responsibility to not change assumptions that 3rd party tools rely on. In terms of PEP 514, will the Store installer use a different tag, or some other way of having registry entries independent of the PSF installer? Basically, I'm not clear on how having the Store install and the PSF install simultaneously present will work - very few tools in my experience really support PEP 514 (not even the `py` launcher) - and frankly, if we're going to break tool assumptions that there's only one official "3.7" present at any time, we're on very shaky ground claiming that PEP 514 warned them if we haven't even updated our own supplied tool! (I know that there's lots of ways people can have multiple versions right now - PSF plus Anaconda, for example - but it's fine to say "you're mixing distributions, you're on your own" in that case. If the PSF is publishing two versions of 3.7, which can be simultaneously installed, we can't really use that argument. Paul ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34977> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
