[Python-Dev] Python install layout and the PATH on win32

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/17/2012 10:50 AM, Paul Moore wrote:

> Meh. None of this is a real issue. It's just some extra messy coding.
> But Van's point is that this proposal gives him less hard coding.
> Beyond pointing out that it gives me more, I don't have much to add.

I suspect a case could be made that harmonization now will benefit 
multiple people in, say, 5 years, especially if by then one only 
supported 3.3+ while supporting multiple platforms. It would be the same 
rationale as that for 3.0, and especially the bytes to unicode change 
for text. (As I remember, we are only 3 years in on that one ;-).

I leave it to Van to actually explain and make the argument.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy