Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>>> having a lot of trouble installing 2.5 (without affecting my stable
>>>> 2.4),
>>>> I wonder why there's only a msi installer for windows users ?
>>> What's your problem? I have five versions installed (2.1, 2.3, 2.4,
>>> 2.5 and svn) and they coexist peacefully. Just make sure when
>>> installing 2.5: a) use a different directory (obviously!) b) don't
>>> associate .py extension with this new version.
>> So how do you prevent that the windows registry is changed,
>> if you're using an msi installer ?
>
> Just unselect "Register Extensions" ("Make this Python installation
> the default Python installation") when installing the MSI file, if
> you don't want .py be associated with this installation.
Thanks I missed that setting.
Never seen before that this tree was used to prevent register changes.
A beautiful example of bad GUI ;-)
cheers,
Stef
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