[Python-ideas] Possible Enhancement to py Launcher - set default

[Paul Moore]

I'm reluctant to expand the feature set of the launcher in this
direction. It's written in C, and tightly focused on being a
lightweight launcher. Adding code to manage user options and persist
them to the py.ini file would be a non-trivial overhead, as well as
being hard to maintain (because C code and text handling :-)) It's not
that hard to manage an ini file, and if anyone wants a friendlier
interface, writing such a thing in Python as a standalone utility
would be easy, and far more robust, flexible and maintainable than
adding it to the launcher directly (you could even add a GUI if you
like ;-)).

Conceded, I'm saying this from the perspective of writing and
maintaining the code, and not from the UX/UI perspective. If someone
wants to add this feature to the launcher, I don't mind, but
*personally* I don't think it's worth it.

Paul

On 6 February 2018 at 10:10, Alex Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com> wrote:
> I actually like the idea of being able to modify the py.ini file to set the
> default from py.exe.  That seams like the most intuitive thing to me.

>> From: Python-ideas [mailto:python-ideas-bounces+tritium-
>>
>> Maybe the Windows installer should offer to set/change that, especially
>> when installing a non-release version?