Python 2.4 killing commercial Windows Python development ?

[Tony Meyer]

> installs it where?  the MS docs seem to indicate that they 
> want you to install it in the program directory, rather than 
> in a "shared" location:
> 
>     http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326922

From
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-February/265334.html>:

"""This means to install it into the directory containing python.exe.
Unfortunately, this does not work if your extension is then used in
an embedded Python, e.g. one running as a COM object. In this case,
python.exe will not be the main executable, but, say, outlook.exe will
be. So Microsoft's recommendation to install the DLL into the EXE
directory is flawed for COM and other embedded cases. This is
precisely the reason why the Python installer installs both python24.dll
and msvcr71.dll into system32."""

=Tony.Meyer