Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>What the python installer is doing is the Right Thing for making the >>standard python dll available to third party applications. >>Applications that want a specific version of a specific DLL should use >>the mechanisms available for doing so, instead of relying on there >>being a specific version of the python dll in the windows folder. This >>is just general best practice on Windows. > >No, it's not best practice for an application install any of its files >in the Windows system directory.
Python is more than an application. It's a development tool, and its DLLs are needed by any of the Python applications I create. I disagree with your assertion. >The system directory is ment only for drivers and system files. In your view, what disqualifies python24.dll as a "system file"? The fact that it wasn't produced by Microsoft? >Installing application DLLs in the system directory is something that >should only be done for backwards compatiblity. Deployment of Python applications is much easier when python24.dll is located there. That has to weigh in the equation. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
