This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author buhtz
Recipients buhtz, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2022-02-23.08:22:08
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <1645604528.5.0.846357801282.issue46833@roundup.psfhosted.org>
In-reply-to
Content
Hello together,
this is is about the installer of Python 3.9.10 on Windows 10 64bit.

I have problems to interpret the installer wizard/dialog. And my argument is that no matter if there are good reasons for the current options some of the users are confused by it.

The goal should be to make the installer more clear about what this options do.

Lets see the "Install for all users" option:
 This appears on all three pages.
 I am not sure but would say that the first two options are related to the py-launcher not the the python interpreter itself. OK, but why two options?
 The third option is for the interpreter?
 And I do not see an advantage in making a difference between launcher and interpreter for that option.

Lets see about PATH/environment variables:
 This appears on the first page ("Add Python 3.9 to PATH") and on the third page ("Add Python to environment variables").
 I do not understand why.

And all this options are not synchronized. It means when I Enable "Add Python 3.9 to Path" on the first page the "Add Python to environment variables" on the third page is not updated (enabled) also.

Again:
I am sure there are very good reasons for this separated options. But the wizard should make this reason clear to the user (or her/his admins) so that she/he can make an well informed decision.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-02-23 08:22:08buhtzsetrecipients: + buhtz, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware, steve.dower
2022-02-23 08:22:08buhtzsetmessageid: <1645604528.5.0.846357801282.issue46833@roundup.psfhosted.org>
2022-02-23 08:22:08buhtzlinkissue46833 messages
2022-02-23 08:22:08buhtzcreate