Python DLL in Windows Folder

[Markus Gritsch]

On 25/12/2007, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> 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.

I assume that your Python applications are .py files.  To be able to
run them it would be perfectly ok if the Python DLL would be located
beside the python.exe in the Python installation folder.

> Deployment of Python applications is much easier when python24.dll is
> located there.   That has to weigh in the equation.

Same doubts as above: For .py files to be executed it is not necessary
that the Python DLL is located in the Windows system32 folder.

Markus