Python 2.4 killing commercial Windows Python development ?

[Thomas Heller]

Dave Brueck <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> writes:

> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> If there is something about the default install of Python on Windows
>> that makes it less desireable or less easy than other platforms,
>> then maybe that can be fixed.  To make installation easier, maybe
>> someone could write a small .exe that could be frozen with scripts
>> or run with installers and that would detect the presence/absence of
>> the needed Python version and offer an auto download and install if
>> needed.
>
> I mostly agree with the sentiment, but it does break down a little in
> practice. At least currently it does - like you said, this is fixable,
> but nobody has signed up to fix it yet.
>
> The main thing that's needed is a zero-input Python distribution - a
> Python runtime, if you will - that (1) gets installed to a "good"
> place (2) does so without asking the user to do anything, (3) can
> coexist with different versions of the runtime, and (4) is easily
> detectable by applications wanting to use it.

The effbot.exe platform (or how it's called) ?

> One other minor component is a small launcher executable, because on
> Windows it's non-trivial to find out which "python.exe" in the task
> manager is running which Python script. Anyway, each app would have a
> small launcher that bootstraps the actual Python script[1]. (Or, if
> there's some way to trick the task manager into displaying something
> besides "python.exe", that'd work too)

exemaker?

Thomas