Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:
Yeah, currently the only detection that happens is OS version, and just so we can block (or at least log) users who are trying to install on supported versions. The install directories are unconditional. Any dynamic detection code would have to go into Tools/msi/bundle/bootstrap/PythonBootstrapperApplication.cpp and would update variables defined in Tools/msi/bundle/bundle.wxs. If you find the code for getting the ProgramFiles(Arm) directory, you'll see an example (which is probably the right one to update to handle the range of platforms). However, I think we should consider the 32/64-bit install directory names to be a compatibility concern, and shouldn't modify them generally out of some kind of sense of "fairness". If it's trivial and safe to detect 64-bit running on ARM64 (which, as you say, it ought to be), then we can update its directory name there by default. We should probably also display a notice in the installer when installing the Intel builds on ARM. The 64-bit version is fine, but the 32-bit version has issues, and my experience so far is that the native build is significantly faster than both. We can do that another time though. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46744> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
