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

[Paul Moore]

On 7 February 2018 at 19:35, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
> Checking the Version (!=SysVersion) property should be enough (and perhaps
> we need to set it properly on install). The launcher currently only works
> with PythonCore entries anyway, so no need to worry about other distros.

Fair enough. But there was a separate proposal to make the launcher
handle non-PythonCore cases - there's a risk of conflicting feature
requests here :-)

> PEP 514 allows for other keys to be added as well (it specifies a minimum
> set), so we could just set one for this. “NoDefaultLaunch” or similar.

Sure - it could be purely a launcher convention, rather than having to
be specifically noted in PEP 514.

Paul