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Author terry.reedy
Recipients Bruno Salvino, Wallison Resende Santos, paul.moore, steve.dower, terry.reedy, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2016-01-30.02:18:06
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Are you are referring to the option in the Windows installer to prepend the currently-being-installed Python directory (and the scripts directory) to the system PATH variable?  Is so, making this the default has been proposed and rejected before.  Some developers think it a bad idea. In any case, the current choice is not a bug.
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2016-01-30 02:18:07terry.reedysetrecipients: + terry.reedy, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware, steve.dower, Wallison Resende Santos, Bruno Salvino
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