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I don't understand. What would be the correct default install location?

• lysol 14y ago
  c:\Program Files, like every other program since Windows 95.
  • hartez 14y ago
    And technically you should just use the 'ProgramFiles' environment variable, since the folder might be called something else if your install is in another language. And Windows allows side-by-side installs of 64- and 32-bit versions of the same software; so installers should be aware of 'C:\Program Files (x86)' and 'C:\Program Files'; the first is for 32-bit programs on 64-bit machines.
  • e40 14y ago
    This is just wrong. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5176817 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5176817
• Lambdanaut 14y ago
  As a followup, what is supposed to go into C:\? I've always thought it was awful that Python gets installed into that directory.
  • SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago
    I don't think that the user or an installer should put anything directly in C:\. I agree, it is awful that python goes there.
    • thevdude 14y ago
      It's the same as going "I'll just save this folder on / so I don't have to remember the path later".
  • csense 14y ago
    It is not awful. I've put junk in the root of my drives since before Windows 95. Installers that default to putting junk C:\Progra~1 are what's awful.