Installation problem

[Oscar Benjamin]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:41 eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/8/15, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:30 eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The new installer for 3.5 doesn't create an "App Paths" key for
> > "python.exe" like the old installer used to do (see the old
> > Tools/msi/msi.py). Without that, unless python.exe is in the search
> > PATH, "Win+R -> python" and running "start python" in the command
> > prompt won't work. You can of course add the key manually as the
> > default value for
> > "[HKLM|HKCU]\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
> > Paths\python.exe". IMO, this makes it the 'system' Python.
> >
> > That's interesting. Any idea why it changed?
>
> Probably it's just an oversight. I doubt Steve Dower would have
> purposefully decided to not set the "App Paths" key.
>
I guess it deserves a bug report then. (Not on a proper computer right now
but maybe tomorrow)
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