Python DLL in Windows Folder

[Tim Roberts]

Ross Ridge <rridge at caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>Chris Mellon <arkanes at gmail.com> 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.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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